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TIL “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman was only able to get his comic green-lit because he told Image Comics that there would be a plot twist revealing that the zombie apocalypse was caused by aliens who were using the zombies to weaken humanity’s defenses. It was a lie.

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PYgve TIL that the Bald Eagle (the national bird of the United States) is one of the greatest conservation success stories ever. Populations dwindled in the 1900's due to the insecticide DDT which caused eggs to break. After the banning of DDT, eagles can now be found in 49 out of 50 US states.
698YZ TIL in March 1945 there was a "reverse D-Day", where Nazi soldiers isolated on the english Channel Islands briefly landed in liberated Granville, France, bringing back prisoners and supplies
ykNp TIL The word “scientist” did not exist before 1833. Before this, scientists were referred to as “natural philosophers”.
Zp5eG TIL In 1932 Sprinter Liu Changchun became the first athlete to represent China in competition at an Olympic Games. Liu's life was made into the 2008 film "The One Man Olympics"
pY784 TIL: Tetris blocks actually have names and they're incredibly weird