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TIL that Marvel Comics owned the trademark to the word “zombie” until 1996

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l7Y6r TIL that there is a man named Richard Weaver who multiple times has bypassed the Secret Service in order to shake Presidents' hands, claiming that it is a way of passing "notes from God" to them.
9RMX TIL a greater percentage of Dutch people speak English than Canadians. 90% of Dutch people speak English. Only 85% of Canadians do.
4XAew TIL in 2003 the smoke from large bushfires in Canberra, Australia formed a Cumulonimbus Flammagenitus. Essentially the fire created its own supercell storm, complete with lighting and forming an F3-rated fire tornado. The tornado and associated fire killed 4 people and injured 492 others.
E1JLV Today i learned: Certain species of sabertooths like Homotherium might've been able to cover their fangs, this is not true for most other sabertooths however. Also, the whites in human eyes are used to better communicate amongst ourselves!
PRVZ TIL that During the financial crisis of 1720, known as the South Sea Bubble, the Houses of Parliament called for stockbrokers to be sewn into sacks filled with poisonous snakes and thrown into the River Thames