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TIL that Disney accidentally broadcasted hard core porn.

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a8MXo TIL that creator of Wonder Woman was in a thruple that involved his first wife and his student. They were heavily into bondage which inspired early iterations of the super heroine. Thruple lasted 22 years all the way to his death
W7VYY TIL the word "Easter" is derived from Eostre, an English pagan goddess whose festival marked the start of Spring
Gy1N TIL that the first non-Caucasian pro basketball player, Wataru Misaka, later declined an offer because the “salary for a rookie and the salary for a starting engineer weren’t much different.”
0wMAp TIL that the Sonic The Hedgehog (1991) title cards and credits (Everything above the background layer) are off centered by 8 pixels to the left
Y1Vd TIL that most mermaid “sightings” were most likely manatees, dugongs, or Steller’s sea cows. In fact, Christopher Columbus spotted 3 manatees near the Dominican Republic and would later write that mermaids are “not half as beautiful as they are painted.”