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TIL Superman was originally a bald telepathic villain.

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VM1yk TIL Although Cuba is the most famous cigar producing country, tobacco for cigars was first cultivated in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is also the largest exporter of cigars in the world, exporting 44% of the world's cigars.
BrbJe TIL 'mana' is the spiritual life force energy or healing power that permeates the universe, in the culture of the Melanesians and Polynesians. Anyone or thing can have Mana. It is a cultivation or possession of energy and power, rather than being a source of power.
OoGbX TIL that in 2012, a group of scientist successfully regenerated a 32000-year-old plant.
gwXy TIL of a 83 year old lady from Wyoming who maintains and regularly uses a 122 year old sourdough culture, she makes pancakes out of it.
bMY9 TIL that “Scrubs” was shot in a real (former) hospital, which was used by a number of other productions until its demolition in 2011. Sometimes people would come into the Emergency Room set, thinking it was a real hospital.