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TIL actor Andrew Garfield bagged The Amazing Spider-Man role due to an unreleased scene of him eating a cheeseburger and telling Gwen Stacy to calm down. The way he ate the food was described by the film’s director Marc Webb as something “I just hadn’t seen before” and that it worked.

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jNjNQ TIL It cost more to make the movie Titanic ($200m) than to build the actual Titanic ($7.5m, or $125m when adjusted for inflation).
rNGdy TIL in 1907, passengers arriving at Ellis Island had to pass a medical exam to enter the US. Doctors used a secret code to mark passenger's clothes with chalk: 'H' indicated heart trouble suspected; 'L' suspected lameness, and 'X' suspected feeble-mindedness.
e0DKE TIL there was once a LEGO game in devolpement that would allow people to make anything they wanted out of Lego bricks, but it was never completed because they couldn’t stop people making dicks, even with a dedicated ‘dong detection’ team.
ANwad TIL the UK exports cheese to France, tea to China and boomerangs to Australia
4XaBa TIL in 2009, Dame Vera Lynn reached the top of the UK album charts with ‘We'll Meet Again’, a compilation to coincide with the 70-year anniversary of the declaration of World War II. This meant that the 92-year-old was the oldest living artist to make it to number one in UK chart history