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TIL that the 2017 Marvel film “Thor: Ragnarok” had the initial working title of “Creature Report”, referencing the musical segments present in almost every episode of the children’s TV show “The Octonauts”.

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Bjyb TIL in 2010 Mattel launched Computer Engineers Barbie. With the accompanying book we learned that CE Barbie needed the help of two men to code the game she was designing and they also needed to help her after she accidentally infected her and her sister Skipper’s computers with a virus.
16jd TIL There is a Tibetan funeral practice called a Sky Burial that involves placing a disassembled body on a mountaintop to be devoured by vultures. The bones are then broken with mallets and fed to crows and hawks.
BGpr TIL an Owl’s eyes are so well developed, they are not eye balls but elongated tubes. It is for this reason they cannot roll or move their eyes and can only look straight ahead (which is why they have adapted an extraordinary range of movement in their neck).
jNnrE TIL a man from Michigan tipped the FBI the exact location of Osama Bin Laden in 2003. They didn't take his tip seriously, and it took eight more years before they ended up killing him in the exact location he told them. There was also a $25 million reward for the info he gave them which went unpaid.
8RXa TIL that there is a guy who ran 50 marathons in each of the 50 states in 50 consecutive days.