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TIL about turducken, a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey

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gMVK8 TIL about pioneer James Young, a black man who was born into slavery, and would later move into Tombstone, Arizona, where he become a miner, ranch worker, hostler, indian scout, bodyguard, buffalo soldier, and a boxer who was the only black man to fight heavyweight world champion, John L Sullivan.
gM1mb TIL Stan Lee, co-creator of Daredevil, worried that blind people would be offended at how far he exaggerated the way a blind person's other senses are enhanced, until he started receiving letters telling him that blind people greatly enjoyed having Daredevil comics read to them.
xW4D TIL - When Pope Francis released white doves from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square in Rome the “symbol-of-peace” birds were immediately attacked by a seagull and a crow.
XEBrR TIL Final Fantasy 7 was originally going to be set in New York City in 1999. It partially resembled the final story, the main characters were still part of an organization trying to destroy Mako reactors but they were pursued by a hot-blooded detective named Joe and eventually blew up the city.
1GEX TIL that Ed Zahn accidentally aged a block of cheddar cheese for 40 years.