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TIL Marvel comics filed for bankruptcy in 1996

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j8BN TIL Brazil distributes women’s breast milk around the country to babies whose mothers can’t provide it for them.
6EV5Q TIL of an 21-year-old African Grey Parrot named Waldo, who is the lead singer of the death metal band 'Hatebeak'.
e0dLb TIL that locusts, such as those mentioned in the Bible, are grasshoppers, and I am thirty years old.
grQKL TIL about Runaway Truck Ramps. When going down long and/or steep inclines, the brakes on a truck or other large vehicle may fail due to frequent use and the weight behind them. Because of this, certain mountainous roads will install long gravel ramps that vehicles can drive on to slow down and stop.
ne9WG TIL - In 399 BC, Socrates went on trial and was subsequently found guilty of both corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens and of impiety ("not believing in the gods of the state"),and as a punishment sentenced to death, caused by the drinking of a mixture containing poison hemlock.