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TIL Alan Moore created Rorschach of the Watchmen as an insult to Steve Ditko’s similar characters The Question and Mr. A, calling Ditko’s Objectivist philosophies “laughable.” Everyone missed the point and actually liked Rorschach’s character.

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kOKbB TIL of Inochi Tendenko (go separately) - the maxim in tsunami prone areas of Japan that dictates that the individual need not stay and help others but should run and preserve his or her life instead
R7L1j TIL That the extra layer of skin over the eye of 90% Asiatic people is called the "epicanthic fold" and is theorized to have evolved as a protection against cold and snow blindness.
DQaPY TIL - English physician William Harvey was a prominent skeptic regarding allegations of witchcraft. He was one of the examiners of four women from Lancashire accused of witchcraft in 1634, and as a consequence of his report, all of them were acquitted.
ANYWa TIL Senator Strom Thurmond had a child out of wedlock named Essie Washington-Williams who was black. She revealed herself as his daughter after his death at the age of 100. She tried to join the 'Daughters of the Confederacy', as she was eligible through her father's ancestry, but she was rejected.
xVEV5 TIL that the real color of the sun is white. It just appears yellow to us due to earths atmosphere scattering the higher wavelengths of light.