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TIL Bruce Banner was renamed to David Banner in the 1978 TV-series The Incredible Hulk because CBS thought Bruce sounded too gay.

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KYKGG TIL the first deaf person in recorded history was a painter
0Vl5 TIL- Pawpaw, the largest edible fruit native to North America is pollinated by flies because the flowers smell like rotting meat, the fruit tastes like a banana/mango
8apnG TIL while 95% of U.S. adults support organ donation, only 54% are actually signed up as donors.
0QB1 TIL that a sunburn isn’t skin cells being damaged and dying, it’s the skin cell DNA being damaged and then committing suicide to prevent cancers from growing, in a process called UVB-induced Apoptosis.
LxmV TIL in 2004 van Gogh’s great-grandnephew, Theo, was murdered for making a film about violence against women in Islam. He was shot more than 8 times, cut in the throat to decapitate him, stabbed in the chest and stabbed with another knife attaching a note that threatened Western countries & Jews.