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TIL of The Architect of Sleep a Scifi/fantasy novel about an alternate earth where raccoons developed opposable thumbs instead of apes. It was intended to be a trilogy.But, furries became obsessed with it, causing the author to refuse to finish it.

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8aPoG TIL - The "Thagomizer", the spiked tail on a stegosaurid dinosaur, didn't have an official name till the cartoonist Gary Larson did a comic about it, named it, and the scientific community just accepted it and started using it too.
R78n1 TIL That children who grow up drinking low-fat milk are significantly more likely to suffer from obesity as they grow older (as compared to children who drink whole milk).
e06b TIL that when a mother wrote to Marvel that her deaf 4yo son won’t wear his hearing aid on account that superheroes don’t have to, Marvel replied with a custom comic in which Hawkeye is deaf, and uses hearing aids.
jNgWQ TIL that in 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that records which document Israel's arms sales to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide will remain sealed and concealed from the public.
VMwM4 TIL Stan Lee had a contract awarding him 10% of the net profits of anything based on his characters. The first Spider-Man made more than $800 million in revenue, but the producers claimed it did not make any profit and Lee received nothing.