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TIL there was an episode of the 1980s’ Transformers’ cartoon where Megatron and the decepticons got hammered by overindulging on energon

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rRpaw TIL in one comic, Superman turned Lois Lane Black for a day.
nD87 TIL that if you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world. Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one “founder,” an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes.
mgYY TIL that X-files character Dana Scully is responsible for a surge of women pursuing academic careers. This became known as the “Scully Effect”
gr8Nb TIL At the time that Atari released the home version of Pong in 1974 the computer chip the game used was the highest-performing chip used in a consumer product. It was also Sears best selling product at the time, far exceeding expectations.
k7a7 TIL in 1992 an inflatable bouncy castle took flight with 5 children inside. To save them, a 21 year-old man grabbed one of the trailing ropes, climbed up to the castle 15 metres in the air and pulled each child out, before losing his grip and falling through the canvas roof of a dodgems tent.