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TIL sarcasm is believed to boost creativity in all parties involved in the conversation

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p8Ka4 TIL Siegel and Shuster created Kryptonite in 1940, in an unpublished Superman story 3 years before it appeared on the radio show. DC Comics rejected the story because among other things Superman revealed his secret identity to Lois, causing their relationship to change and upsetting the status quo.
e0Gp4 TIL despite being in DC, the seal of Georgetown University says "Georgetown College on the Banks of the Potomac in Maryland" as the university was founded in 1789, 12 years before it became part of DC.
nwOd TIL a radio station offered six figures to anyone that would get a tattoo of the station’s logo onto their forehead. A man and his stepson did so and upon requesting the money they were told they “weren’t entitled to anything.”
JW4m TIL There is a fictitious member of the German parliament. He has his own official bio page, and even a bridge named after him. The hoax has been going since the 1970s
gQVL TIL A senior scientist in the Manhattan Project was later persecuted by a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee for being “at the forefront of a revolutionary movement in physics called…quantum mechanics.”