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TIL that the superhero Black Panther predates the founding of the Black Panther Party, and Marvel even changed the name for a while to "Black Leopard" in order to avoid confusion

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mxm0O TIL A feral pig ransacked a campsite and drank at least 18 cans of beer before getting into an altercation with a cow in Australia.
R5Nwa TIL on October 11, 1992, Deion Sanders played in a Falcons game in Miami (NFL) and then flew to Pittsburgh to play in the Braves’ League Championship Series game against the Pirates that evening (MLB), becoming the first athlete to play in two professional leagues in the same day.
R7dl TIL New employees at Google are given a propeller beanie cap to wear on their first Friday.
oByb7 TIL that ever since the first atomic bomb tests, the air is contaminated with enough radioactive particles to make modern steel useless in highly sensitive radiological instruments. Today, only steel made before these tests, such as from sunken warships, can be used to make such devices.
OGjER TIL that the left breast gets cancer more often than the right one.