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TIL Marlon Wayans was originally supposed to play Robin in Batman 3 and still receives royalty checks even though he was swapped for Chris O'Donnell in Batman Forever.

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0daXp TIL Harald a lowly Viking Chieftain proposed to his concubine Gyda, who declined, saying she’d only marry him if he ruled all of Norway. Harald vowed not to cut or comb his hair until he achieved this. After ten years of war, he united Norway, earned the nickname “Fairhair,” and married Gyda.
maKY TIL David Hayter, the original voice of Snake in the Metal Gear Solid series, wrote the screenplay for the first X-Men movie and the film The Watchmen.
Egyy7 TIL a 2013 study in the US, involving 138 women and 98 men aged 18-36 years old, found that only 38.4% of women and 20.4% of men were able to correctly identify the vagina on a diagram of the female anatomy.
6EZnw Man-made snow will be almost entirely used for the Beijing Winter Olympics, beginning on February 4.
jNnGR TIL about the moon landing’s ‘Human Computers’. Who were a group of women, who held math and science degrees, and were responsible for managing the moon landing’s incredibly complex calculations. They also did it real-time, by written hand, and were faster than any technology available before 1970.