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TIL that Hulk was originally intended to be grey, but only became green due to colouring issues. However, the green version was liked by Stan Lee and became final.

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7rZJZ TIL Ian Fleming was a keen bird watcher. When choosing a name for the hero of Casino Royal he used the name of the author of one of his bird books - James Bond. In 1964, Fleming gave Bond a first edition copy of You Only Live Twice signed, "To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity".
Brx6D TIL that anybody, dead or alive, travelling into France requires a passport. In 1974, The Egyptian government had to issue a passport to Pharaoh, Ramesses II to transport his body to France for restoration. Eerily, his body also received full military honours when it arrived at the Paris airport.
dD4vB TIL that the father of Stewart Copeland, a founding member of rock band The Police, was one of the founders of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Miles Copeland Jr.
7rMMr TIL Sir Mix-Alot has made 100 Million or more off of Baby Got Back.
XNV6 TIL about the Rosewood massacre which was a racially motivated massacre of blacks and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida.