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TIL Marvel assigned almost all the states their own superheros. Utah’s are undisclosed members of the Mormon church.

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epDlb TIL of Nicholas Macdonald Sarsfield Cod'd, an Irishman who in 1830 named himself a pretender to the throne of the new Kingdom of Greece. His attempt to get the job of King of Greece was rejected by the British Foreign Secretary, despite his claim to be descended from a Byzantine emperor.
0wdo5 TIL that Aeschylus, the ancient Greek tragedian, was supposedly prophesied to die from a falling object, and therefore stayed outdoors. He was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a rock.
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