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TIL that in 1983 instead of taking Marvel to court for "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for plagiarizing his short story "Soldier from Tomorrow", Harlan Ellison settled w/ EIC Jim Shooter for a lifetime subscription to everything Marvel ever published.

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4oB5 TIL that when Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia in 1777, saying beer was superior for “breakfast drinking,” people started drinking a coffee substitute called “Muckefuck.”
0wrn5 TIL the CIA had a mind control program. In 2018, declassified documents included a letter discussing work on six dogs made to run, turn and stop via remote control and brain implants.
dYyE TIL Deer poses the most danger to humans out of all mammals living in North America
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