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TIL that Martian Manhunter is the only founding member of the Justice League who wasn’t created in the Golden Age of Comic Books.

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1aZZ7 TIL players of an online video game called Foldit decoded the crystal structure of an AIDS structure using the video game puzzle that had baffled scientists for over 15 years.
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nedBo TIL about Joe Arridy, who had an IQ of 46 and is known as the “happiest prisoner on death row”. He went into the gas chamber with a smile. It turned out he was innocent.
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