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TIL that Jack Kirby - co-creator of Captain America - had street fights with Nazi sympathisers and later fought behind enemy lines in WW2.

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R7RW6 TIL: When Richard Dawkins originally coined the term, a "meme" was a basic elements of culture just as a gene is the basic component of genetics.
yQZAv TIL about the Great California flood of 1862 - which submerged Sacramento under 10 feet of water and turned California’s Central Valley into a vast inland sea spanning 300 miles long, 20 miles wide and 30 feet deep. It killed thousands, bankrupted the state and historically happens every 200 years.
b94k7 TIL pirates wore an eye patche so when they went below deck they could switch the patch to the other eye to see in the dark right away without waiting for their eyes to adjust.
8KlL TIL the most powerful passports are the Swedish, Finish and UK passports. If you are an owner of one of these you are allowed to travel to 173 countries without a visa
ANNko TIL Scientists at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia spent 17 years trying to identify powerful but extremely short radio bursts that would appear at seemingly random intervals. In 2015 they finally identified the cause: a microwave oven at the facility being opened prematurely.