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TIL Wonder Woman has a black sister named Nubia. She was sculpted from black clay just as Diana was sculpted from white clay.

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lQBB TIL at Chicago’s O'Hare airport a 20 year old Bill Murray made a joke to another passenger that he was carrying 2 bombs. Overheard by a ticket agent, a couple of U.S. marshals were summoned to search his luggage. They didn’t find any bombs but rather $20,000 worth of pot. Murray was then arrested.
XEWnQ TIL that Austrian architect, Eduard van der Nüll, decided to null himself by committing suicide after learning that Emperor Franz Joseph said he didn’t like the opera house Nüll built. Later Emperor Franz felt awful & never said anything bad about art or architecture again.
O5aR TIL that in 2009, bourbon distillery Knob Creek completely sold out of their stock. To celebrate this, they ran ads showing an empty bottle with the words “Thanks for nothing.”
7dnp TIL : In 1992, Michael Jordan was the ambassador of Nike but his team was sponsored by Reebok so his uniform had a Reebok patch on the right shoulder.Jordan carried an American flag on his right shoulder to completely hide the Reebok logo proclaiming that “The American flag cannot deface anything.”
rVAW TIL that when Coca-Cola wanted to raise the price of the drink in the 1950s, they avoided moving to a price that required the use of more than a single coin (5¢), so they created vending machines where one in every nine bottles was empty so some people would have to pay 10¢ to get a drink