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TIL that Tim Duncan is an avid fan of Dungeons and Dragons and wanted to be called “Merlin” when he first got into the league

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e0LK4 TIL about the inventor of Cosplay, Myrtle R. Douglas, aka Morojo. A Science Fiction fanzine editor, in 1939 she created costumes, based on an H.G. Wells movie, for her and her boyfriend to wear to the first World Science Fiction Convention. Within several years costumes became integral to Worldcon.
xAdw TIL that Jefferson’s original Declaration of Independence contained a paragraph about the evils of slavery.
ADp1l TIL that in 1887 a group of men added Susanna M. Salter to the mayoral ballot of Argonia, Kansas, as a prank to discourage women from running for office. She then won by a 2/3 majority and became America's first female mayor.
YpRoW TIL that the magnetc field of Earth orients iron-rich minerals in molten lava along the field lines, then becomes locked into place as the lava hardens. By studying different layers of solidified lava, we know that magnetic poles fliped in the past and will do it again.
W7Oe9 TIL that Tyrannosaurus lived 66 million years ago. Stegosaurus lived 145 million years ago. We are closer in time to Tyrannosaurus than Tyrannosaurus is to Stegosaurus.