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TIL In 2008, a British 19-year-old officially changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined."

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omx8 TIL a small group of people is remaking the classic 1994 video game, Descent, into the up to date UDK engine.
kbeg TIL of albino redwoods. Unlike most chlorophyll producing plants, albino variants of redwoods don’t die as long as they are attached to a non albino redwood that is able to support them. There are only around 61 known examples of such plants
jAQa TIL that during the filming for Top Gun, the cameraman pilot entered a flat spin in order to gain footage. This is the same flat spin that was portrayed in the movie which would ultimately kill “goose”.The spin was unrecoverable, killing the pilot/cameraman.
VnNB TIL that cooked eggs actually have around twice as much digestible protein as raw eggs.
ep7EL TIL about the “golden horse”, thought to be the oldest existing horse breed, and has a very distinctive metallic sheen to their coats.