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TIL the comic book series, The Crow, was originally created by James O'Barr as a means of dealing with the death of his fiancée at the hands of a drunk driver.

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gMOKA TIL In 1906, A Congolese man called Ota Benga from a Mbuti pygmy tribe was held in a human zoo exhibition in Bronx, as a display of "earlier stage" of human evolution. In 1916, after getting out and unable to return to his homeland, he shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistol and died at 32.
7rLZP TIL Hagfish were being transported to South Korea where they are eaten as a delicacy, but instead covered the car and road in slime. Hagfish slime expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second. It is 100,000 times softer than Jell-O. Hagfish produce slime when attacked or stressed.
dPAZ TIL Bhutan is the only country in the world that is carbon negative; it emits 1.5 million tonnes of carbon a year while its forests absorb 6 million.
RbM1 TIL that a secret message was engraved inside Lincoln’s pocketwatch by a jeweler, and it was not discovered until 2009.
ng1B TIL that a joint sting operation between NASA and the United States Postal Inspection Service busted an $5,000,000 illegal moon rock deal in 1998