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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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0ymp TIL After the sinking of the RMS Titanic (1500 lives claimed), a federal law was passed requiring a complete set of lifeboats. The added weight of the new lifeboats caused an already top heavy SS Eastman to rollover killing 844 people while still docked in the Chicago River.
Wk6aB TIL that the actor who played Luca Brasi in the Godfather was actually a member of the Colombo crime family sent to monitor the set. Coppola cast him, but due to his nerves, he kept making mistakes and repeating his lines to himself. This was then incorporated into the film as a character trait.
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