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TIL Wolverine almost a cameo in Spider-Man 1, Hugh Jackman travelled to New York to film a scene but the idea was scrapped when the production team realized they had lost Wolverine's suit

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gMnLy TIL that in 1995, Dutch electronics engineer Jan Sloot claimed to have invented a data sharing system that could store a complete movie in eight kilobytes; he died one day before signing a deal, and despite months of searching, the system's compiler program has never been found.
8amMP TIL in the 2014 World Cup Final between Germany and Argentina, Christoph Kramer suffered a concussion in the 17th minute. He continued to play the game and later asked the ref "is this the final?" After the ref answered "yes" Kramer looking stunned replied 'Thanks, that's important to know.'
wa8Y TIL ‘smurf accounts’ in competitive video games are named such because some of the first top players to make alternate accounts chose the usernames 'PapaSmurf’ and 'Smurfette.’
6Ey8Y TIL that near 16th century Edinburgh, there was a clan of cannibals who may have eaten more than 1000 people. They were led by a man named Sawney Bean.
kJGQB TIL of Cape Disappointment in South Georgia, discovered by an expedition led by Captain Cook who named it so after realizing that he had discovered an island and not a continent