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TIL that Germany actually consists of 16 separated Federal States

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oRK5Y TIL that the Comic Sans font was directly inspired by the comics "Watchmen" and "The Dark Knight Returns." It was originally built for a user friendly version of Microsoft, codenamed Bob, and thus the creator used the comics he had on hand as inspiration to make the font appear light-hearted
lojL7 TIL the cast of Captain Planet included the voice talents of Meg Ryan, Martin Sheen, Jeff Goldblum, LeVar Burton, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner, Tim Curry, John Ratzenberger, and James Coburn.
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