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TIL that when working on "Avengers: Infinity War", the directors considered including a Sherlock Holmes joke when Iron Man meets Doctor Strange, as both actors had portrayed the characters in other media. They decided against it because they thought the joke would be too obvious.

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8adBa TIL the CIA paid magician John Mulholland $3,000 to write a spy manual of trickery and deception as part of the top-secret MKUltra project, a CIA program that investigated mind control. Mulholland’s 1953 guide was supposed to be destroyed in the 1970s but an archived copy reappeared decades later.
6EVBQ TIL that, due to Catholic doctrine that discovered territory be placed under the diocese from which the explorers departed, the Diocese of Orlando technically includes the entire Moon.
NX7o8 TIL that Hulk was originally intended to be grey, but only became green due to colouring issues. However, the green version was liked by Stan Lee and became final.
AVQn TIL that Sir George Everest, the man after whom Mount Everest is named, actually pronounced his name “Eve-rest” and not “Ever-est”
OonM1 TIL Jon "NEVERDIE" Jacobs mortgaged his home to buy a virtual asteroid for $100,000. In 2005, this was the most valuable virtual item ever sold. This landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records for owning the most expensive virtual item, which he later sold for $635,000.