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TIL Stan Lee created The X-men as 'mutants' because he didn't want to explain how they got their powers. They were BORN with their powers.

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Z80ND TIL about Janet Airlines. A highly classified airline that shuttles military personnel in and out of Area 51. The name stand for 'Just Another Non-Existent Terminal'
PYnrg TIL that the first thing that was ever bought and sold over the internet was weed. In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford's AI Laboratory engaged in a commercial transaction with their counterparts at MIT, and thus the first act of e-commerce was a pot deal.
VjyG TIL video games are commonly released on Tuesdays thanks to Sonic The Hedgehog
69MVW TIL the Five Stages of Grief do not always go in exact order from denial and anger to acceptance, and often vary from person to person. The psychiatrist who created the model said she regretted writing them in a way that is widely misunderstood.
VZ64 TIL: 2,000-year-old seeds were discovered in 1963 inside an ancient jar in Israel. They were planted in 2005 and a tree that had been extinct for over 1800 years sprouted.