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TIL Spider-Man’s black suit, which later became the basis for Venom, the Spider-Man villain, was a fan-based concept that Marvel bought for 220 dollars

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P5bO TIL honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil
NAa1 TIL during the Chernobyl Disaster, Aleksandr Lelechenko saved his colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times in place of his younger colleagues. He died less than 2 weeks after the disaster.
DmWg TIL in 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, Vavilov’s scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
ADPg7 TIL that E. B. White, author of "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little," co-authored a spoof of sex manuals with James Thurber titled "Is Sex Necessary?"
aaB9 TIL that Alfred Wegener, the father of Continental Drift (which became plate tectonics) and a pioneer in paleoclimatology died lost in a blizzard on an expedition. His theories were ridiculed until decades later.