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TIL Spaceman Spiff from Calvin and Hobbes was written as a parody of the space opera genre, spoofing Flash Gordon and Star Wars.

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j6nGn TIL legendary multi-sport athlete Jim Thorpe not only professionally played baseball, football, basketball, and gold medaled in the decathlon and Pentathlon, but also won the 1912 intercollegiate ball room dancing championship
XEGgP TIL that term 'patient zero' was coined by mistake during the 80's AIDS pandemic, when someone read Patient O (as in first recorded in US Outside California) wrongly
BBjx TIL: that when the Mongol army was withering from the 14th century bubonic plague epidemic, they decided to catapult their infected corpses over city walls before invading. This is considered one of the first acts of biological warfare
Mya TIL that Crown Royal, Johnnie Walker, Jeb, Windsor Premier, Buchanan’s, Bushmills, Smirnoff, Ketel One, Cîroc, Bailey’s, Captain Morgan, Jose Cuervo, Tangueray, and Guinness are all owned by the same company.
KAmR TIL that for years, the slogan on Oklahoma license plates was “Oklahoma is OK.”