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TIL that Marvel Comics’ Deadpool character (Wade Wilson) started as a parody of DC’s Deathstroke (Slade Wilson)

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gr70y TIL in 1719, prisoners in Paris were granted freedom on the condition that they marry a prostitute and relocate to Louisiana.
mxr4R TIL I learned about Mellified man. The donor would only eat honey, going as far as to bathe in the substance. Shortly, his feces (and even his sweat, according to legend) would consist of honey. When this diet finally proved fatal, the donor's body would be placed in a stone coffin filled with honey
P1k9V TIL The Statue of Liberty’s copper skin is about the thickness of 2 pennies.
0deL TIL the word “set” has 464 definitions, the most of any word in the English language.
Ky19 TIL that Apollo lunar rover missions had a “walkback limit” on travel distance so that astronauts would still have time to walk back to the lander if the rover broke down