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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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QNj7d TIL that James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway were drinking buddies in 1920s Paris. Joyce, who was small, weak, and had poor eyesight, had a habit of picking fights and then hide behind Hemingway, shouting, “Deal with him, Hemingway! Deal with him!”
8XLa TIL that it is safe to eat the stickers that are on fruit, and the glue used to put them on is actually food grade
4Dr6 TIL Mexico is named after its capital Mexico City, not the other way around
Vy4D TIL scientists are working on plans to equip the International Space Station with a laser cannon to zap space debris in an effort to clean up the 3,000 tons of discarded satellites and other garbage in orbit
v1PoR TIL ex-president James A. Garfield contributed to an original proof of the Pythagorean Theorem