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TIL That the term 'Superhero' is a trademark owned by Marvel and DC Comics, and competitors need to apply to them for a license to use it

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OGjQL TIL in 1972, 80,000 Ugandan South Asians were expelled from Uganda because they were 'better off' than Ugandan Natives
NXnpQ TIL half ton lions roamed North/Central America and people hunted them.
neBP9 TIL that the game craps is called craps because the name derives from the French word crapaud, meaning toad, where players would squat down in the streets like toads
9w7nG TIL that once, in 1910, the Ottoman Empire sent 80,000 stray dogs to a desert island, where they quickly became feral and ended up cannibalizing each other. This event is known as the "Hayırsızada Incident"
R0A6 TIL there is a species of deer in Germany who won’t cross the border where the Iron Curtain once stood, even though that border has been gone physically for 20 years.