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TIL A Florida man is suing claiming that the X-Men cartoon’s theme song was ripped off from the theme of a 1980s Hungarian TV series he wrote.

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0wm11 TIL an 11-yr-old girl in Zimbabwe rescued her 9-yr-old friend from a crocodile. Rebecca Munkombwe saw her friend being pulled under when swimming in a stream; she swam over, jumped on top of the croc & poked its eyes till it released its grip on her friend's leg. The 9-yr-old got only mild injuries.
PrBO TIL that Darwin predicted the existence of a moth in Madagascar 45 years before it was seen, and 150 years before it was scientifically publishable.
0wa4y TIL that while kittens will mew for their mother, adult cats only meow at humans, and no other species because animals have their own way of communicating.
G5A4 TIL: An Italian tradition, now spreading, of caffè sospeso (suspended coffee) where people can pay for coffees on top of their own so the less well off can have a cup too.
DPvv TIL: On April 1st 1974 in Alaska, Oliver Bikar set a 100 tire fire alight inside the crater of extinct volcano Mount Edgecumbe. Upon arrival an investigating Coast Guard helicopter found April Fool’s written in 50 ft high letters.