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TIL NYC had a higher GDP than Mexico.

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e0egE TIL Stan Lee was planning on changing careers when he was assigned to come up with a new superhero team. Since he had nothing to lose, he experimented with stories he preferred. This resulted in co-creating Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Thor, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Avengers.
Eop0 TIL a city in Sweden uses light therapy in bus stops to combat depression during winter when 19 hours of the day are darkness
XEYpE TIL: Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman) Has been SMACKING HIS ASS to create natural claps in his EDM songs for over 10 years. He still does it today!!!
e6g4 TIL Marie Curie’s research papers are still highly radioactive and to access them you must sign a waiver and wear protective clothing.
jN7vE TIL that in the 13th century, a Muslim polymath named Ibn al-Nafis discovered the circulation of blood 300 years before William Harvey