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TIL that the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, named their company Mirage Studios because there was no actual studio other than Laird’s living room.

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7rX9M TIL Space is not cold but has no temperature. A person in space without a spacesuit would not feel cold at first because heat transfer cannot occur as rapidly in space.
8RXa TIL that there is a guy who ran 50 marathons in each of the 50 states in 50 consecutive days.
5Y46R TIL that silent discos are banned in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, for being too noisy
PYr7G TIL the oldest lobster ever caught was estimated to be 140 years old, also as lobsters age, they tend to grow bigger and heavier. The 140-year-old lobster weighed 44 pounds.
7mBx TIL a teacher in Queens resigned after an investigation revealed he’d used 11 sick days to compete in professional wrestling matches, once on a televised “SmackDown!” match against Kurt Angle.