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TIL that New Line Cinema had plans for Tom Cruise to play Iron Man until they let the option expire in 2005.

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78P4r TIL the 1983 film "Scarface" was originally given an X rating three times in a row by the MPAA. On the fourth appeal, the film was finally given an R rating, but director Brian De Palma released the original version anyway, only admitting to it months after the film's release.
kJoQ7 TIL former Italian football goalkeeper Davide Capello survived a 30 meter (100 foot) fall during a bridge collapse while driving his car in 2018. He walked away unscathed.
Ax7g TIL that a star was discovered whose center is an enormous diamond, of 10 billion trillion trillion carats; astronomers called the diamond star “Lucy”
9wyEr TIL that in 1947, Logician Kurt Gödel supposedly found a loophole in the US Constitution that would allow the American democracy to legally be turned into a dictatorship. Even todya, it is not known precisely what this loophole entailed.
GYl7j TIL that the USA does not have an official language at the federal level. English is only the official language of 32 states.