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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

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Xeer TIL that Philipe Val the editor of “Charlie Hebdo”, the french weekly that is running the caricature of Mohamed and has countless time provoked muslim, found a cartoon linking jew to money and power offensive and told its author to apologise. When he refused he was fired for being an “antisemite”.
pXXQ TIL in 1900 Isaac Cline violated weather service policy and unilaterally issued a hurricane warning to warn the citizens of Galveston, TX that a major storm was headed their way.
oYJo TIL George Foreman was collecting 40% of the profits on the George Foreman Grill until they paid him $137 million to buy the rights to his name.
6EpLZ TIL that the 10 most obese countries in the world are all located in Oceania according to data collected during a World Health Organisation study in 2016 about the prevalence of obesity among adults. Nauru is the most obese.
P17ZZ TIL that an Australian man who lived by a cliff prevented at least 180 suicides in his 45 years of living there, by striking up a conversation with people contemplating suicide and inviting them to his house for tea.