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TIL Stan Lee, had a contract awarding him 10% of the net profits of anything based on his characters. The film Spider-Man (2002) made more than $800 million, but the producers claim that it did not make any profit as defined in Lee's contract

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awNlL TIL R.E.M. has a song called The flowers of Guatemala, which is about the Guatemalan Genocide. A troubling amount of people in the country still openly deny the genocidal crimes, despite a judicial ruling that condemned them in 2013.
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