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TIL of a fan campaign to get Donald Glover the lead in "Amazing Spider-Man." It failed, but his character on Community wore Spidey PJs as a nod. That episode inspired a Marvel writer to create Miles Morales, the first Black Spider-Man. Glover went on to play Miles' uncle in "Spider-Man: Homecoming"

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4JBo TIL that as far back as the 1930’s pilots were setting endurance records keeping planes aloft for weeks at a time using primitive mid-air refueling techniques.
xVAQk TIL President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda hold the Guinness World Record for "Greatest Robbery of a Government". They stole hundreds of millions of dollars causing the total national loss from between $5 and $10 billion
VM5MQ TIL Villagers were often surprised to see Hong Kong governor Murray MacLehose in remote areas, asking how things were and clearing up rubbish on their beaches. The Chinese government invited him to visit Beijing in 1979, making his the first official visit by a governor since 1949
neYOB TIL about Gobekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old temple (7,000 years older than Stonehenge) that predates humanity's oldest known civilizations and is full of strange animal carvings and towering stone pillars. The site's true purpose is still unknown.
laK5 TIL the mysterious “Umbrella Man” (aka Louie Steven Witt) of the JFK assassination said, “I think if the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up.”