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TIL there is a full episode of “Everybody Loves Hypnotoad”

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4wrX TIL that today in Confederate Park, Fort Mill SC, there is a monument to “faithful slaves” that fought for the “principles of our Confederate States of America.”
0ELR TIL that “shrapnel” is named after Henry Shrapnel, inventor of a type of anti-personnel cannonball
7beZ TIL that despite breast cancer and prostate cancer have similar rates of mortality, breast cancer research receives twice as much government funding and twice as many grants from the American Cancer Society
4X69g TIL in Marvel Comics the Asgardians were involved in a centuries long ''cold war'' with the Irish gods the Tuatha De Danann, but both groups of gods later joined forces to defeat Seth, the Egyptian god of evil.
4XpWJ TIL that the idea of wooden stakes to kill vampires actually came from the use of wooden stakes to pin the dead down so they couldn’t escape the coffin. A measure taken during the New England vampire panic among other places. Though staked in the chest it had nothing to do with piercing the heart.