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TIL former NBA star, Dr. Shaquille O'Neal, owns 10% of all ‘Five Guys Burgers’ restaurants in the US

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0ykA TIL that Dwayne Johnson was Tim Burton’s second choice for Willy Wonka in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’
bnxZ TIL there is actually a superhero called “normalman.” He was the only person without superpowers on a planet full of superheroes.
PYwmg TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.
g4QL TIL during WWII Canada gave out buttons to people who tried to enlist but were refused due to medical reasons to show their willingness to fight
LQLjZ TIL that Mr Fantastic originally first met invisible woman (his wife) when she was twelve and he was in college. Marvel understandably retconned this decades later.