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TIL that the Incredible Hulk’s green skin color was originally a result of printing error (he was originally grey) that Stan Lee liked.

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ggy4 TIL Biotech firm Pembient has managed to 3-D print fake rhino horns that are genetically identical knock offs. The company plans to flood Chinese rhino horn market at one-eighth of the price of the original, undercutting the price poachers can get and forcing them out eventually.
NN4J TIL that ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad was a survivor of Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn program, an attempt to selectively “breed” more children with “racially desirable” traits.
rMBx TIL A “billion” in England was defined as a million million (1,000,000,000,000) up until 1974.
W7E9 TIL Ayn Rand was buried with a 6-foot tall floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign on her casket.
OAnR TIL putting higher octane gasoline in your low-end car has absolutely zero benefit