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TIL James Cameron was supposed to make a Spider Man film in the 1990s with Leonardo DiCaprio as Spider Man & Arnold Schwarzenegger as Doctor Octopus

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j6Eop TIL: To win a battle against the Egyptians, the Persians carried cats which the Egyptians considered sacred and would not harm. This gave the Persians an inital battlefield edge.
m1goR TIL that after the European arrival in the Americas, the mass dying of the native population may have contributed to the global temperature drop from the 16th to 18th century.
eamL TIL our galaxy isn’t just a spiral galaxy but a bar galaxy
epm0E TIL the UK is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned the capability to launch satellites into space. The Black Arrow rocket launched the Prospero satellite into orbit from Australia in Oct 1971. The project was cancelled that same year due to cost.
9ywQ TIL in 1923, Germany’s hyperinflation was so high, the exchange rate went from 9 marks to 4.2M marks to $1 USD. One German worker, who used a wheelbarrow to cart off billions of marks that were his week’s wages, was robbed by thieves who stole the wheelbarrow but left the piles of cash on the curb.