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TIL that the scenes in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse that feature Gwen Stacy in her universe were inspired by Disney's Cinderella

QJaYa TIL Contact lens wearers are younger on average than non-contact lens wearers and younger users are associated with lower contact lens compliance. More than 70,000 children go to the emergency room each year for injuries and complications from medical devices related to contact lenses.
nedWY TIL Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, a British comics magazine, first published in 1884 is regarded to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Sales of the magazine have been as high as 350,000, the magazine describing itself as "the largest selling paper in the world"
b6WA9 TIL about Goblin Tools: ensures formal emails, gauges emotions in texts, estimates task time, provides recipes and more.
yEVw TIL of Green Run - a secret Air Force experiment that released Hanford’s largest single dose of radioactive iodine-131. Scientists let 7,000-12,000 curies into the air, traveling as far as 200 miles. For scale, Three Mile Island released an estimated 15-24 curies, Chernobyl 35-49 million curies
R7jAj TIL John Wilkes Booth was surprised to find little public sympathy after his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Formerly anti-Lincoln newspapers condemned the act and while some Southerns were happy Lincoln was dead others feared it would spur retribution upon the already defeated Confederate states.