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TIL that a boy didn’t want to wear a hearing aid because “Super heroes don’t.” To get him to wear it Marvel Comics created a super hero with a hearing aid: “Blue Ear”

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NPLQ TIL One out of every four bridges in America either carries more traffic than originally intended or is in need of repair.
9wYdp TIL Galileo's middle finger is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy
74ex TIL A team of stonemasons, carpenters, blacksmiths, quarrymen, tile makers and workers of other professions are painstakingly building a medieval castle from scratch, using only tools, materials and techniques available in the Middle Ages.
QNk4X TIL that The Lion King was intentionally modeled after Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
dD4Kj TIL the Cities of Tampa and Miami have a rivalry over where the Cuban Sandwich was first invented and that Tampa passed a resolution in 2012 naming it the official sandwich of the city.