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TIL Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice during lift off.

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0jvj TIL there is a Marvel Comics character that is a werewolf centaur fused with an alien symbiote. His name is Marcus and his weakness is literally diabetes.
R5b56 TIL Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII first wife, gave birth to three male heirs. In 1511, she gave birth to Henry; the child only lived for 52 days . Her pregnancies in 1513 and 1514 were recorded as stillborn boys. Her only child to reach adulthood was Queen Mary.
LkRVd TIL that a case decided in California in 1974 cited the Magna Carta (1215) in it's opinion. The Supreme Court of California used the document to interpreted a requirement in common law that a defendant faced with incarceration be entitled to a trial overseen by a legally trained judge.
OjVe TIL | Black Friday Is Plumbers’ Busiest Day of the Year (Brown Friday)
yRLV TIL that the longest work of fiction is a Super Smash Bros. fanfiction called “The Subspace Emissary’s Worlds Conquest” that is four million words long, and spans 220 chapters as of now. That is twice as long as the longest novel “Men of Goodwill” by Jules Romain which is 2,070,000 words long.