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TIL Iron Man was created by Stan Lee as a challenge to create a hero no one should like and force people to like him

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QOQk TIL On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger pigeon died in a cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. It is the only species for which we know the exact date of extinction
Xwgr TIL Shakuntala Devi, an Indian mental calculator,was asked to give the 23rd root of a 201-digit number; she answered in 50 seconds. Her answer was confirmed by calculations done at the US Bureau of Standards for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.
wonx8 TIL there exists an “Underwater Waterfall” in Mauritius.
wLOOo TIL the Barbie Liberation Organization swapped the voice boxes in ~400 talking G.I. Joes and talking Barbies, then returned them to stores. Kids bought them and heard Barbie say "Vengeance is mine!" and G.I. Joe say "I love shopping!"
wJD1 TIL that Agent Scully was immortal by the end of the ‘X-Files’ series.