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TIL Iron Man was created by Stan Lee as a challenge to create a hero no one should like and force people to like him

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wLNmY TIL Tovstonogov Great Drama Theatre adapted Anton Chekhov's play - "The Cherry Orchard" in Minecraft
1p1X TIL during a meeting with the UN, North Koreans came with AK-47s under their jackets. Instead of confronting them American officers turned up the heat in the room to make them sweat under their heavy clothes
Wk5Lo TIL When on tour, Queen would play their own version of Scrabble they called "Death Scrabble". They would have intense games through the night till morning.The highest single word laid down was by Brian, with the word Lacquers, worth 168 points. Freddie never forgave him for that.
0lrN TIL of the “Corned Beef Controversy” When Astronaut John Young Smuggled a Corned Beef Sandwich Aboard the First Manned Gemini Space Flight
m1d9y TIL on January 5, 1941, 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappeared after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead. Her body was never found.