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TIL that marvel has their movies planned out until 2028.

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rNGox TIL In 1762, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, invented the meal that changed dining forever. As the story goes, he was playing cards and did not want to leave the gaming table to eat. He asked for a serving of roast beef to be placed between two slices of bread so he could eat with his hands.
NeRe TIL that 550,000 female fetuses a year are selectively aborted in India in a practice referred to as Female Foeticide.
xVPQw TIL The original lightsaber prop used in Star Wars by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker is inside the International Space Station and was flown by STS-120 last August 2007
VPvk TIL the original pledge of allegiance did not contain the words “under god” even though it was written by an ordained minister.
OorlX TIL the duck-billed platypus coexisted with dinosaurs, with scientists dating them back to the Jurassic period.