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TIL when skyscrapers were still in its infancy, a stunt performance called "the Human Fly" became extremely popular across North America, which was when someone (usually with a blindfold) would scale/climb the building without a net, becoming the influence for "wall-crawler" Spider-Man decades later

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yWWv TIL After the attack on Pearl harbor, Hawaii was issued their own currency in case the Japanese was successful in taking over the island.
wLJwM TIL of the Corrupted Blood plague, a virtual plague which struck World of Warcraft in 2005
kOnd4 TIL In June 2013, a fossil analysis discovered a large lizard in Myanmar. The extinct reptile was given the moniker Barbaturex morrisoni in honor of Morrison. "This is a king lizard, and he was the lizard king, so it just fit," said Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Xy4P TIL Tiny Toon Adventures made a drinking is bad episode, where Buster, Plucky, and Hampton get wasted, steal a cop car, then die in a crash.
6EnP8 TIL- James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr in ‘68, escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, TN 6/10/77, with six other convicts. He was captured 3 days later.