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TIL 14% of Americans are illiterate

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xnKB TIL that Superman’s flight powers are due to the fact that him ‘leaping tall building in a single bound’ looked silly in animated form in 1940’s cartoon by Fleischer Studios. Studio asked if they can make him fly instead, Action Comics agreed and wrote that into comics.
7Gyb TIL A U.S. infantryman named Bill Millin stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day playing bagpipes. German snipers didn’t shoot him because they thought he was insane.
JwP8 TIL Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development is actually an albino black man. The writers subtly hinted at this, but the plot line never developed due to Fox cutting the seasons short.
X0n1E TIL that chickens pass a version of the mirror test, where roosters warn others if they see a predator, but don't warm their own reflection in the mirror.
j6rYn TIL, that the first pyramid in Pharaonic Egypt wasn't Khufu's pyramid (the great pyramid of giza), However it was his father's (sneferu) known as the "Bent Pyramid," located in Dahshur.