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TIL that due to Woody Harrelson's raw vegan lifestyle, the Twinkies in the movie "Zombieland", in which he plays a character with an affinity for the treat, were replaced with vegan faux-Twinkies made from cornmeal.

AD5gn TIL when Stan Lee was designing Spider-Man, his publisher told him "Stan, that is the worst idea I have ever heard. First of all, people hate spiders, so you can’t call a book Spider-Man. Secondly he can’t be a teenager—teenagers can only be sidekicks. And third, he can’t have personal problems.
gM4JW TIL no single country owns Antarctica. Instead, it is governed by a group of nations in a unique international partnership. The Antarctic Treaty, 1959, designates Antarctica as a continent devoted to peace and science. It is also the only continent without an indigenous human population.
grZnX TIL that honey never spoils, and edible honey was found in Egyptian tombs that's over 3,000 years old!
kJLB7 TIL the 7.9 magnitude 1906 San Francisco earthquake was not even the strongest or deadliest earthquake that year. Two 8.0+ magnitude earthquakes occured in Alaska and Chile on August 17, 1906 within 30 minutes of each other, the Chile one killing 3,882 people.
mArp TIL The Jay Treaty, signed in 1794, provides that American Indians may travel freely across the Canadian-US border. Native Indians born in Canada are entitled to freely enter the United States for the purpose of employment, study, retirement, investing, and/or immigration.