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TIL that Tim Curry was originally casted to be the voice of the Joker. His voice was deemed too scary and lost the part to Mark Hamill.

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JpLj TIL Stan Lee created Iron Man because he thought no one would like him.
p8pwp TIL about Dorothy Kilgallen, a journalist who claimed to have inside information about the death of JFK. She was drafting a chapter about JFK's death in her book when in 1965, she was found dead in her apartment under suspicious circumstances. All copies of Kilgallen's drafts were never found.
M77mB TIL In 1969, an American destroyer named USS Frank E. Evans collided with an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea at 3:00am because the commanding officer was asleep and left two inexperienced lieutenants in charge. The ship turned the wrong way, collided, & sank, killing 74 people
VMXX4 TIL that the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, was a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan.
bJVp TIL, On August 4th, 1985 at the intersection of I-40 and U.S.69, a car and semitrailer carrying military bombs collided. The results were a series of explosions that lead to the deaths of 47 people and the evacuation of 6000 residents of Checotah, OK.