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TIL Jim Davis never intended Garfield to be funny, but rather as “a conscious effort to come up with a good, marketable character”

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XYXE TIL the American and UK versions of the comic strip Dennis the Menace were both released on the same week in March 1951. Both share the same title, a trouble loving boy in a striped shirt, and a sidekick dog. Neither of the creators of either comic strip knew that the other was being created.
GYn75 TIL that some scientists theorize that the origin of life is just the inevitable outcome of thermodynamics as a middle-step to increase overall entropy in the universe.
lZb1 TIL John Denver nearly choked his ex-wife to death during their divorce settlement and cut their bed in half with a chainsaw. (Dude always seemed so chill.)
VMR7G TIL that in 1921 private police in the US dropped bombs and tear gas on a coal miners camp when they went on strike for better working conditions
OEDe TIL Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.