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TIL Stan Lee, who helped create Daredevil, was concerned that exaggerating the way a blind person's other senses are heightened would upset blind people. However, after receiving letters from blind people who enjoyed having Daredevil comics read to them, he felt relieved.

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jNVka TIL scientists discovered a perfectly preserved feathered dinosaur tail in a polished piece of Amber, after the jewellery seller initially thought it was just "plant material"
BrLGL TIL about Agnodice, a Greek female physician. She disguised herself as a man because women are not allowed to practice medicine. She got so good that rival physicians accused her of seducing female patients. She was defended by the women and the law against female physicians in Athens are revoked.
goJA TIL Because of its popularity as a midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has the longest theatrical run in history (almost 38 years and counting).
EgVe7 TIL the word "nuclear" is very often mis-spoken as "nucular". The pronunciation has often been used to signify low intellect and it has been said by numerous famous people and referenced in shows like Family Guy, the Simpsons and Woody Allen's 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors
M7NgA TIL that John Hinckley Jr., former attempted assassin of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, has since been released from prison, turned his life around, recovered from his mental illness, announced his own record label, and released his own music to the public.