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TIL Stan Lee's last film cameo was in Teen Titans GO! To the Movies, with him saying "I don't care if it's a DC movie, I love cameos!"

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WkYYX TIL that a man called Gregory Nemitz claimed ownership of an asteroid months before NASA landed a probe in it. He then proceeded to issue NASA a US$ 20 parking ticket for landing there
4krxo TIL from 1066 to 1971 in England a pound was worth 20 shillings, each worth 12 pennies, each worth 2 halfpennies, each worth 2 farthings, plus thruppence, sixpence, florin, half crown, and crown
9w8VB TIL that most of the elite archers use unanticipated (surprise) release of an arrow. Because it allows the arrow to depart the bow before brain can bring the impact bracing factor into play. Which is a natural reflex like putting out an arm to compensate for an impending fall or simple flinching.
0wKYR TIL legal scholars use the terms malum prohibitum and malum in se to distinguish between offences which are legally or morally forbidden. The former is wrong simply for rules prohibiting them whilst the latter is wrong as it is seen as an innately immoral act.
dEmZ TIL: That Maine is the only US state not known to have any ‘dangerously venomous’ spiders.