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TIL Heath Ledger was first choice to play in 2002's Spider-Man, but turned it down as he didn't want to take someone else's dream away of playing Spider-Man. Eventually the role went to Tobey Magurie.

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epMwk TIL that future hurricane names are already known and chosen well in advance by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Each region has its own list of names that are rotated every six years, and if a hurricane is particularly deadly or costly, its name can be retired to prevent confusion.
Yp1PP TIL that the largest fossilized human turd ever found, measuring 8"×2" ( 20 cm by 5 cm ), came from a sick 9th century Viking and it rests at the Jórvík Viking center in the city of York, England.
0j11 TIL Mary Anning was an English woman who discovered dinosaur fossils, was the first to assemble a full skeleton of an Ichthyosaur, a self-taught scientist, a business owner, confirmed the existence of the Pterodactyl, and one of the founders of Paleontology.
8exLG TIL that Norm MacDonald, the comedian, did not found McDonald's as their names aren't even the same.
jjop TIL US Marine Jack Lucas survived and earned the Medal of Honor by pulling two live grenades under his body during Iwo Jima. Later, he joined the airborne and survived a training jump when both parachutes failed to deploy.