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TIL Marvel pays Stan Lee $1 million a year for life just for being Stan Lee

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rRy8y TIL 15% of the population of Hong Kong (500,000) died in an influenza pandemic in 1968
JYvgV TIL Rats and mice have hooked sperms and in some species they hook together to make a daisy chain that can swim faster
78wPP TIL: The University of Pennsylvania uncovered illustrations with instructions from the 1500s on the use of cats and doves to burn down castles. You strap a sack to the cat, ignite it, and send it to the castle. The plan was part of a manual by artillery master Franz Helm.
NwkM TIL that it is a misdemeanor to kill Sasquatch in Skamania county in the state of Washington.
kJLY4 TIL that Jack Black's mom was Judith Love Cohen, a NASA engineer who helped create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. Also according to one obituary, she went to the office the day Jack was born and took a printout of a problem with her, that she solved later that day.