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TIL: Robert Downey Jr was almost cast as Dr.Doom in Fantastic Four (2005), 19 years later RDJ has been confirmed as Dr.Doom in the MCU

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b6ea7 TIL there is a hoax/conspiracy that makes people install electrolysers on their car engine in the belief they can create infinite energy out of nowhere.
QNROk TIL that cheese gyudon in Japan became controversial because it also meant something else
RkO7 TIL that there is a hidden spy room at an AT&T building in downtown San Francisco that splits all incoming communications traffic, copying this information to the NSA. This room has been operational since at least 2003 and has been publicly known to exist since 2006.
Me6ba TIL the Ancient Greek author Diodorus Siculus wrote that the people of Spain's Balearic Islands loved to be naked & loved women. The Greeks called the islands Gymnesiae meaning naked (γυμνοί) & legend states the the inhabitants would give 3 or 4 men as ransom for 1 woman.
b64Wj TIL: That time and time again without punishment, Starbucks has been using slave labor to their advantage, even incorporating child slave labor numerous times