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TIL the first deaf person in recorded history was a painter
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TIL that Spider-man received a Japanese live-action adaption in 1978 where the hero piloted a giant robot. This use of giant robots became its own franchise, with is later adapted back in the US as Power Rangers
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TIL: There are locations on planet Mercury where during a day the sun will appear to pause, reverse direction, then continue forward again as it moves across the sky. This happens as the planet’s angular orbital velocity and angular rotational velocity flip as it crosses perihelion
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TIL Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, was an elite runner who nearly qualified for the Olympic marathon with a time of 2 hours 46 minutes—averaging an impressive 6:20 per mile
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TIL that 4 billion years ago Mars looked a lot like Earth.
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TIL the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, Gerald Charles Dickens, is an actor who has written and performed one-man shows of Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale of Two Cities, and A Christmas Carol.