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TIL - Seven presidents of USA were born in a log cabin

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5G9B TIL J.K. Rowling cited This Is Spinal Tap’s running joke about the death of their drummer as the inspiration for how Harry Potter’s Defense of The Dark Arts professor vacates their position yearly for various reasons.
4XjPg TIL that the last surviving Woolly Mammoths lived on an isolated island in the Arctic Ocean until just 2000 BC, not long after the construction of the Giza Pyramids
LkRZ0 TIL that Conrad Veidt, whose depiction of the lead in "The Man Who Laughs" inspired The Joker, married a Jewish woman in defiance of the growing power of the Nazi party. Although he was not Jewish, he wrote "Jewish" on his racial identification card. The couple wisely fled Germany for England.
Xp06 TIL: In 1973, a kid entered a Marvel Comics competition to design a new superhero. His published entry had a metal skeleton and was called Wolverine. Six months later, Wolverine made his first appearance in a comic with no credit for the kid.
ZOjB TIL that Bill Watterson, the creator of “Calvin and Hobbes” came off a 20 year hiatus from drawing comics to illustrate 3 comics for “Pearls Before Swine.” The originals went on to sell for $74,090 for Parkinson’s disease.