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TIL Stan Lee created Iron Man because he thought no one would like him.

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JYoKB TIL The US Government injected some of its own citizens with plutonium without consent
LkxaV TIL Two nuclear weapons lay on the Arctic seabed inside a sunken submarine.
VBdEB TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.
VMrX4 TIL Walmart failed in Germany for a variety of reasons, including being convicted by Germany's highest court of "predatory pricing" because their prices were too low
XEXwr TIL, Mel Brooks wore a fake 6th finger to get his handprint in the sidewalk at Grauman's Chinese Theater.