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TIL that Stan Lee, despise being a huge name on Western Comics, has also authored anime and manga of renown! ...Which unfortunately could not leave japanese borders due to their usual trademark and licensing quagmire

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rRDN0 TIL about the J-Cart for the Sega Genesis. It held not only the game data but also came with two additional gamepad ports. This effectively allowed four players to play simultaneously without any extra adapters.
jNJjE TIL that nearly 1/4th of all Caucasian service members of the Union Army were foreign-born, coming from countries such as Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Russia among others. 9.7% of the Union Army were African American freedmen from the north, half being ex-slaves.
QJkAp TIL the FBI mounted a 4-year-long undercover surveillance operation to nab Jared "The Subway Guy" Fogle, after he made some inappropriate comments about middle school girls to a female reporter
b9oQN TIL Stradivarius violins can't be distinguished from other top-quality violins in blind tests
m1aoR TIL Nuclear Bombs Made It Possible to Carbon Date Human Tissue