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TIL Brandon Routh, who starred in Superman Returns, and Jason Momoa, who will play Aquaman in upcoming DC films, are from the same small Iowa town, went to the same highschool, and played on the soccer team together

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woe48 TIL An aphid gives birth to babies that already have their own babies formed inside them. They are clones of themselves – they don’t need to breed with a male. Over a whole summer a single aphid could give rise to 250 tons of aphids.
dxo7 TIL that brushing one’s teeth wasn’t popular in America until after World War II, when soldiers, ordered to brush teeth, brought home their enforced habit
VMJbZ TIL When the show of comedian Benny Hill was cancelled, it devastated him and his health started to decline. However, fans of his show continued pushing for a new series. A company saw this and sent him an offer for some specials. It arrived in the mail on the same day he died.
m1pyY TIL The first $1 notes (called United States Notes or "Legal Tenders") were issued by the federal government in 1862 and featured a portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase (1861-1864).