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TIL that Alan Moore (author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta) wrote a pornographic graphic novel named Lost Girls. The three main characters were Alice from “Alice in Wonderland”, Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz” and Wendy from “Peter Pan”.

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7ro9Z TIL about a Vanishing Temple in India that vanishes twice a day. Due to high tide, the temple gets completely submerged in water, and then later reappears at low tide.
Wl8B TIL an orangutan named Pony was used as a sex slave in a village in Borneo. She would automatically ‘assume the position’ whenever a man neared her. It took over a year for authorities to free her because she was a favorite of the locals who fought against her release.
NZeJ TIL That the American Civil Liberties Union and the Insane Clown Posse Teamed Up To Sue The Department of Justice For Violating Juggalo’s Constitutional Rights
1ajlV TIL that engineers from six New York City television stations died in the 9/11 attacks because the transmission facilities were in the building and they had to keep broadcasting despite the ongoing disaster. They kept the stations on the air until the towers' collapse.
v1WXK Flying a helicopter on Mars is so damn hard but NASA made it possible. For the first flight, the helicopter took off, climbed to about 10 feet (3 meters) above the ground, hovered in the air briefly, completed a turn, and then landed. It was a major milestone: the very first powered flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and, in fact, the first such flight in any world beyond Earth. Being able to fly a helicopter or drone on Mars is very important as they can cover 24 kilometers in an hour. By the way, Curiosity took nine years to travel less than 25 kilometers.