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TIL Marvel Comics spent 10 years convincing the US Government that X-Men are NOT Human.

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E1O6x TIL black pepper and white pepper are actually the same plant. Black = cooked and dried unripe fruit, white = ripe fruit seeds.
R5pJQ TIL that Barry Goldwater and John F. Kennedy were close friends. They planned to hold a series of Lincoln-Douglas style debates across the country in the 1964 presidental election. Goldwater was greatly dissapointed at Kennedy's assassination and that his opponent would not be Kennedy.
AlO4 TIL that cats have no naturally occurring antibodies against dogs blood so can receive dogs blood in life threatening situations. But only once. The second time proves fatal.
W7GrA TIL that there was once a device to flatten neckties for ironing them.
Wkoeo TIL that it is possible for the two hemispheres of our brains to be independently conscious – and even to have differing opinions.