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TIL that Lord Voldemort Was a Character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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Eg4kd TIL the first traffic signal, erected in London in 1868, was powered by gas. A gas leak caused it to explode a month later.
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7LM TIL much of what we know about pirates comes from a single primary source with questionable reliability.
dDx9B TIL bed bugs do not engage in courtship rituals; rather, their method of mating is known as traumatic insemination. In this process, a male bed bug will climb onto a female and use his hypodermic penis to puncture the side of her body, depositing his sperm into her body cavity...
Wk5K9 TIL that Japanese Emperor Hirohito published several scientific papers on marine biology from his laboratory at the Imperial Palace. His contributions included descriptions of several species of hydrozoa new to science.