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TIL Marvel comics filed for bankruptcy in 1996

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L4Ar TIL Fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That´s why it gets so quiet when it snows
VMGNG TIL A Photographer Died Protecting His Film During the 1980 Mt. St. Helens Eruption
6Ex18 TIL About the Moriori Genocide, in which the Taranaki Tribe of the South Island of New Zealand slaughtered almost all of the peaceful and non-violent Moriori of the Chatham Archipelago.
Q9JX TIL between 1995-2000, the chief of security of McDonald’s monopoly pieces passed all the most expensive pieces to employees. They netted over 26 million dollars.
Ag0x TIL there is an Ig Nobel Prize for unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. This year’s winners include Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, LITHUANIA, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank.