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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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X0Q4Q TIL a vampire story older than Dracula , Leptirica (1973) adapts Milovan Glišić’s 1880 novella Posle devedeset godina (After Ninety Years), a tale about the vampire Sava Savanović published 17 years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula.
BgJXK TIL that unescorted women prevented men from casually assaulting them in the early 1900s with a simple clothing accessory - the hat pin, and it was so effective as a weapon that laws were passed limiting it's length in many states.
eJRb TIL of the Gaia Hypothesis, which states that Earth should be categorised as a single pre-life organism operating on chemical reactions, much like an amoeba.
Yp45P TIL that McDonald's major revenue does not come from selling burgers but from their real estate. McDonald Corporation is a company with $40 billion dollars’ worth of real estate assets (before taking depreciation into account) and yearly revenues of $9 billion, of which nearly $4 billion in profit.
5VDOD TIL about IIMSAM. A geopolitical entity recognized by the UN, but who's treaties all seem to be fraudulent, as well as their status in international law being practically nonexistent. One of their only confirmed treaties being with a micronation, and it seems as if this entity barely exist at all.