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TIL Henry Cavill refused to use steroids to muscle up for his Superman role in "Man of Steel". He believed that it would have been dishonest of him to use trickery while playing Superman, and he wanted to push his body to the limits, to develop his physique into one that was Superman-worthy.

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QZ8L TIL that Double Stuf Oreos only have 1.86 times the amount of stuffing
VMVxm TIL Rufous elephant shrews are native to the dry savannas of eastern Africa.The shrews spend as much as half their waking hours maintaining tidy trails to navigate through their territory and find food. Remarkably, they do not sleep with their eyes closed and only sleep for 2 or 3 minutes at a time.
RO09 TIL that a group of ecologists, chefs, and diners are campaigning to eat lionfish, a fish decimating the native ecosystems and thought to be responsible for a drop in the biomass of native reef fish species by an average of 65 percent
l6Qr TIL that the number of Chinese causalities killed by the Japanese far outnumbered the Jews killed in the holocaust
kOoLg TIL New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with 800 languages spoken