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TIL that a man named Corey Taylor faked his death to get out of a Verizon cell phone contract

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16x9d TIL That Spider-Man (2002) had footage made just for the trailer that involved escaping bank robbers in a helicopter getting caught in a giant web between the Twin Towers. However after 9/11, the studio pulled it from theaters.
v1dJD TIL That Jason Todd died in Batman because of a poll where calling 1-(900)-720-2660 voted in saving Jason or 1-(900)-720-2666 to kill him after 10,614 votes where 5,343 in favor of killing him and 5,271 in saving him and it was later revealed that one guy called to kill Jason over 100 times
5VODQ TIL that the UK government began to buy and nationalise over 300 pubs in 1916 because they felt the nation's workers' excessive drinking was having a detrimental effect on the war effort
6ErNJ TIL of Stoneman's disease, an extremely rare genetic condition where the body replaces damaged tissue with bone.
YYWG TIL that animals and their meat have different names (e.g. deer = venison) because the peasants that raised the animals used the animal’s Germanic name while the aristocracy that ate them used the French name.