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TIL that the character of Venom started with a fan suggesting a way to upgrade Spiderman's costume. Marvel paid him $220 for the idea.

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XlaX TIL that pro wrestler Mick Foley (who fought in the WWE as Mankind) had his ear ripped off during a match, but didn’t stop the fight. Afterwards, given the choice of getting the ear reattached and fighting another event, he chose to fight in another event
96bB TIL of an Appalachian family that inbred to the point that newborns had blue skin.
9wLdm TIL That Silverchair's multi million selling debut album Frogstomp was written when all members of the band were only 15 years old
M0y8 TIL former Telstra CEO Solomon Trujillo, of Hispanic descent, told the BBC that he found Australia to be racist, backward and like “stepping back in time”. The Prime Minister’s response was “adios”
b9Vb0 TIL of composer Frank Churchill, who worked on early Disney films Snow White, Bambi and Dumbo, winning an Oscar for Dumbo. In 1942, just months before the release of Bambi, he shot himself, purportedly "at the piano." He received two posthumous Oscar nominations for his work on the film.