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GAX1E TIL the working titles for Marvel’s Spider-Man movies include “Summer of George” and “Serenity Now”
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QJZx9 TIL Brazil suffered from Hyperinflation in the 1980s-1990s
yQPXX TIL that as the earth warms, scientists fear that ancient viruses and bacteria will be released from the permafrost. Deadly infections from hundreds of years ago may reemerge, especially from old cemeteries where victims of these diseases were buried.
W7GM4 TIL that Astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the Gemini III mission in 1965. He offered it to his crewmate mid-flight, but they had to stash it quickly as floating crumbs threatened to interfere with the spacecraft's instruments.