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TIL 12 other characters in the Marvel universe (and others) have lifted Thor’s hammer Mjolnir.

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BrG7K TIL Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison owns a Russian MiG-29. The United States government has reportedly kept Ellison from flying the MiG-29 in America because it's "considered a firearm"
081A TIL that an Indonesian toddler Aldi Rizal has quit the habit of smoking 40 cigarettes a day but has now got addicted to junk food. He started smoking when he was just 18 months old.
e0yNk TIL Tina Turner's real name was Anna Mae Bullock. Ike Turner not only invented the name "Tina Turner" as her stage name, but he had it trademarked, so that in case she left, another singer could perform under the same name.
OoRk6 TIL that since 2016, the real bones of nazist Josef Mengele, the nazist Angel of Death, are used in a brazilian school to teach medical forensics.
0wmVp TIL about the Oka Crisis, where the mayor of Oka wanted to raze Aboriginal land to expand a golf course. A documentary, called Kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance gives a native’s perspective