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TIL Robert Downey Jr. only made 500k for Iron Man, but two years later made 10 million for Iron man 2.

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8aD94 TIL Harriet Tubman suffered a violent head injury as a child causing her to frequently slip into into sleep like states. These would produce vivid dreamlike hallucinations that Tubman interpreted as messages from god, to devote her life to freeing southern slaves through the Underground Railroad.
Xw6P TIL American soldiers and Boy Scouts regularly burn the US Flag, as the most dignified way to dispose of it when the flag has been damaged/become unfit to represent the United States.
MeOvm TIL of Harlon Block, a marine who raised the flag on Iwo Jima but then died soon after. He was misidentified in the famous picture for 2 years but his mother knew it was him. Looking at the photo she exclaimed “I’ve changed so many diapers on that boy’s butt, I know it’s my boy"
wL1R1 TIL That temperature can be used to identify poor or affluent neighbourhoods in cities. This is because trees increase the "albedo" of a district by absorbing/reflecting heat radiation, whilst poorer districts tend to have less trees in public and private spaces than posher areas.
RDe7 TIL Grizzly bears have a better sense of smell than a hound dog and can detect food from miles away.