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TIL that Bruce Banner originally “transformed into the Hulk at sunset and reverted at sunrise.”

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5YjZr TIL that when US Pres. John Tyler refused to toe the Whig party line in 1841, his cabinet resigned one by one and the Whigs expelled him from their party. He served the majority of his term as "a man without a party."
5VQyR TIL that when "Blackmail" premiered in 1929 as the first British film with sound and dialogue, two years after American sound films hit British theaters, it was promoted with the tagline "See and Hear it! Our mother tongue as it should be spoken!"
LQNyP TIL that there are mattress sizes larger than California King and cost up to $5,000 named after American states Texas, Wyoming and Alaska
GAmZ4 TIL Richard Nixon's foreign policy known as "Madman Theory" revolved around the idea of acting as irrational and volatile as possible as to make irrational and suicidal threats seem feasible.
pYNYZ TIL about Stu Ungar, who preferred Blackjack, but beat the champ so bad he started playing poker and still is a joint best 3 time winner of the World Series.