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TIL that Iron Man was created by Stan Lee as a challenge to create a hero no one should like and force people to like him.

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ZyKB TIL rubbing your dog’s ear sends nerve impulses to pituitary glands that secrete endorphins, pain-killing, feel-good types of hormones that make your dog so relaxed throughout his/her whole body that he/she becomes essentially “high” off of his/her own hormones.
neDv7 TIL Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company, was murdered in an attempted kidnapping.
OoAaL TIL that charity sky dives - on average - cost more money for the health service than they make. Each pound raised for charity cost the NHS £13.75 in return due to injuries picked up by people doing charity sky dives.
N7eLE TIL the second officer of the Titanic, who survived by swimming from the sinking ship to a capsized raft, later in life sailed his civilian craft to Dunkirk and helped evacuate over 130 men.
JGj1 TIL that “You’re not dead until you’re warm and dead” - In a Norwegian study, 38% of “dead” hypothermia victims were successfully resuscitated after their core temperatures were brought up