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TIL in 2003, Marvel planned to publish a five-part comic series entitled 'Di Another Day' featuring a resurrected Diana, Princess of Wales, as a mutant with superpowers.

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yQ61l TIL the bronze bull (or brazen bull) was a torture/execution bull-shaped device. The condemned were locked inside, fire set under, heating metal until they're roasted to death. An acoustic apparatus converted screams into the sound of a bull.
6EEWX TIL that Salt Lake City planners made the city blocks way too big making intersection crossings dangerous for pedestrians so now they give them big ass flags to carry while they cross!
OLpR TIL the University of Florida student who coined “Don’t taze me bro!” trademarked the phrase less than 2 weeks after the incident.
wLvGW TIL In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter debated, marking the first time in US history that a president had agreed to debate and only the second time that any televised debates had been held. The sound system failed, leaving Ford and Carter standing in silence for nearly half an hour
1jYd TIL The USA dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. Thats about 3 bombs every hour for 24 hours a day…