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TIL Superman was originally a bald telepathic villain.

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YppKP TIL of the shortest war ever- the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896. It lasted 38 minutes.
KYA64 TIL early movie projectors utilized primitive arc lights which were very bright but had a tendency to flicker, especially if they were not properly maintained. It is because of this flickering that movies came to be called "flicks".
kOvRm TIL of Hellé Nice who was a nude model, a dancer and racing driver. She won the first Grand Prix for Women in 1929, beat male racing drivers of the day, broke the land speed record, appeared on magazine covers across the world and was accused of being a Nazi spy. She died in abject poverty in 1984.
pbx4 TIL of a Herculaneum, a neighboring city to Pompeii that suffered the same fate but is better preserved.
OaKg TIL there was a 20 meter shark that preyed regularly on whales and other large prey. They were such efficient killers that they ran out of food and had to resort to cannibalism, effectively eating themselves into extinction.