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TIL an Iron Man scene was taken from Robert Downey Jr.' s own life when the character he played, Tony Stark, screamed for a cheeseburger and then determined he would stop manufacturing WMD; Downey had years before determined to give up drugs after eating a "disgusting" Burger King hamburger.

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