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TIL that the author that gave us "It was a dark and stormy night" also gave us "the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword".

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4k81g TIL Disney has a company town called Lake Buena Vista, Florida that acts as the mailing address for the company.
9Y7lm TIL Honey Bees can communicate with each other! A returning bee can tell other bee's about potential food sources, including distance, directions and how difficult it is to get there.
XEpxX TIL that in 1937 Martin Goodman, the founder of Marvel Comics bought tickets on the Hindenburg to return from his honeymoon in Europe, but couldn't get seats together with his wife, so they took an airplane instead. Marvel Comics #1 came out two years later.
m1n7M TIL of the 'Eddie Murphy Rule' in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act which disallows secretly giving out doctored market information so as to corner a market using false information.
0xLj TIL the most accurate Moon Phase wrist watch can accurately track the moon’s phase for the next 2,060,757 years - so accurate that by the time you’d need to adjust it by a day, an Earth day would be 37 seconds longer and all calculations would be null and void. Plus you’d be dead.