TIL Stan Lee's blood was allegedly stolen and used to sign comics in ink containing his DNA.
https://www.ktnv.com/news/comic-legend-stan-lees-blood-used-to-sign-comic-books-sold-in-las-vegas
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TIL that Marcus Aurelius is believed to have written a series of love letters to his tutor Fronto. One reading: "Farewell my Fronto, wherever you are, my most sweet love and delight. How is it between you and me? I love you and you are not here."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Marcus_Aurelius
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TIL 10 Cloverfield Lane was adapted from a script called The Cellar that was unrelated to the movie Cloverfield.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Cloverfield_Lane
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TIL German filmmaker Werner Herzog made a short film called Game in the Sand (1964) that he refuses to release because filming “got out of hand”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_in_the_Sand
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TIL Beaver anal secretions have been used as a vanilla flavor substitute for certain foods and luxury cosmetics.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-history-of-flavoring-food-with-beaver-butt-juice/
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TIL aboriginal cannibals were said to prefer the taste of Chinese people over Europeans, "because their rice-fed flesh tasted better than the salty flesh of the beef fed whites."
https://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/native/cannibal.html
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TIL of Quintus Quincy Quigley, the founder of Paducah, Kentucky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Quincy_Quigley
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TIL the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa?wprov=sfti1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f0ie6y/til_the_mona_lisa_has_no_eyebrows/
TIL that Nintendo was founded in 1889.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48606526.amp
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ezveou/til_that_nintendo_was_founded_in_1889/
TIL that tiny pocket in blue jeans was intended to hold a pocket watch
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-jeans-have-that-tiny-pocket
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TIL (from a YouTube video from The Paint Explainer) Warnock's dilemma is the explication of why there is no sure way to understand why nobody comments on community post you made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma
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TIL Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant who speaks 10 languages, described how numbers appear to him in terms of shape, color, and texture. For him, 289 is ugly, 333 is attractive, and pi is beautiful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet#Savantism
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TIL between 1978 and 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Out of 31 officials who were tested, 12 accepted the bribe and were convicted
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/abscam
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TIL there is desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate has been kept filled with candy since 1965. It’s called the ‘Candy Desk’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Desk
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TIL that Hitler ensured the safety of his Jewish family doctor Eduard Bloch (who treated Hitler's mother for breast cancer at reduced cost). He was allowed to emigrate to the US in 1940.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Bloch
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TIL that more academic papers have been written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other popular culture phenomenon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer#Academia
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TIL in 1184, 60 noblemen died after a wooden floor collapsed in a church, causing them to fall into a "latrine cesspit" (liquid shit) which hadn't been emptied for a while. Their cause of death was drowning.
https://toilet-guru.com/blog/50.html
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TIL there is a cheese called Pantysgawn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantysgawn
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ehy849/til_there_is_a_cheese_called_pantysgawn/
TIL people used to do their laundry in Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. They would put their clothes in the geyser and it would erupt with clean clothes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Faithful#History
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eglflc/til_people_used_to_do_their_laundry_in_old/
TIL that pineapples do not grow on trees, but on the ground
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