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TIL it has taken over 15 years of work to get a Venom movie into production, longer than Spider-Man.

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NX8EM TIL the brown bear has been recorded to consume the greatest variety of foods of any bear. This is illustrated in the US, as meat made up 51% of the average diet for Yellowstone grizzlies, while it only made up 11% of the diet for grizzlies from Glacier National Park a few hundred miles to the north
XxA6 TIL that the certificate behind Michael Scott in The Office is not a degree/diploma, but a certificate of authenticity for a counterfeit “Seyko” timepiece.
wLP4J TIL Chicago mobster Sam DeStefano loaned money at interest rates of 25% by week to very high-risk debtors such as drug addicts, in order to torture them in his cellar when they defaulted
OoDX4 TIL that removing lead from gasoline is thought to be one of the big factors that lead to the drop in the violent crime rate in America in the 1990s
WB6B TIL That The Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed