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TIL In X-Men First Class, 2011. Hugh Jackman used 8 takes to try to get his line just right. The line was originally, "fuck off" but on the 8th take Jackman improvised by saying, "go fuck yourself", which became the line used in the film and also gave a genuine reaction from McAvoy and Fassbender.

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1a6XW TIL the United States Treasury used to print 5 denominations of money larger than $100. They were used mostly as government transactions, and were all discontinued in 1969. It is illegal to be in posession of a $100,000 bill, a Gold Certificate, due to Executive Order 6102.
JY0xj TIL that in Taiwan, a few hundred people changed their name to contain the word "salmon" just because a promotion was offered that would give free salmon to people whose name contained the word
5leR TIL that women can be fired for being attractive.
g5ZX TIL that Adrien Beard was chosen to voice the character “Token”, because he was the only African-American employed at South Park Studios at the time of token’s first appearance.
GYpOQ TIL that Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati (born 3 September 2002) is an Indian student who, at the age of 9 and with his father's assistance, invented a six-player variant of chess. He earned a patent for his invention in 2012, making him the youngest patent-holder in India at that time.