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epK9E TIL David Lynch did a commercial for PlayStation 2.
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b9nZE TIL in one of the Spiderman comic book series, Mary Jane dies of cancer brought on by exposure to Peter's radioactive bodily fluids during intercourse over the years.
mx0EY TIL when the Hoover Dam was being drafted, the engineers calculated that it would take 125 years for the concrete to cool if done in a single pour. Instead they poured it in sectioned blocks, some as big as 50 square feet and 5 feet high.