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TIL about melanism, the opposite of albinism

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OoQee TIL a man named David Gonzalez was renovating a home he purchased for $10,100. Inside a wall he found a copy of action comics #1 featuring the debut of superman. The comic sold at auction for $175,000. Afterwards he found a copy of superman #4 from the spring of 1940 worth between $500 and $5,000
NapP TIL a British soldier managed to get a longbow kill during WW2, the only recorded one during the war as well as the most recent one.
AdKn TIL Estonian ID cards have a chip with public-private key pair used to sign documents and vote in elections via the internet. For their 2011 election, 24% of the votes were cast online.
8egZG TIL in a football game in 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech made 32 touchdowns, and never attempted to pass: they ran the ball on every single play. It was such a butt-whooping that the referees cut the last two quarters to 12 minutes instead of 15.
e0594 TIL that an offshoot of Christianity called Manichaeism was popular for a while in Medieval China