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TIL Tom Hardy had to wear stilts in his boots when portraying Bane in the Dark Knight Rises to make him appear taller and more imposing than Christian Bale’s Batman

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XYR6 TIL that in the classic “pot calling the kettle black” expression, the kettle may not be black at all. The pot is seeing its own reflection in the kettle’s shiny surface.
16xlO TIL western actor Jack Elam, known for his damaged eye, lost the use of that eye at a Boy Scout meeting at age 11 when another scout stabbed him with a pencil.
dpW7 TIL that Jupiter is so massive that rather than orbiting the Sun, they both orbit a point in space between them.
xeL1 TIL there was an experiment where three schizophrenic men who believed they were Jesus Christ were all put in one place to sort it out.
8aXeb TIL. Venus flytraps are only native to North and South Carolina.