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TIL that Marvel has to publish a Captain Marvel comic at least once every two years to not lose their trademark on the name, leading to several different characters using the name as an alias

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kOpB7 TIL that Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) has their own police department, a jurisdiction that covers 34,000 miles of railroad.
J1Oj4 TIL Plants also use photosynthetic pigments that are not green. Most of the time we can’t see these other pigments because their colors get overpowered by the green color pigments.⁠
J1X5k TIL when Jimmy Hendrix’s mom died (when Jimmy was 16) his dad did not allow him and his brother to go to the funeral, instead giving them shots of whiskey and telling them that was how men should deal with loss
pYJE4 TIL that Melvin Van Peebles received a loan of 50000 Dollars from Bill Cosby to complete his groundbreaking movie "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song"
epNRD TIL researchers found that people couldn't tell the difference between human & AI-generated poetry, and even preferred the latter. AI-generated poems scored higher than their human-written counterparts in attributes such as “creativity”, “atmosphere” and “emotional quality”.