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TIL In 1970, a comic was published where Superman helped turn Lois Lane black for a day

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Y1aZ TIL that scientists recently discovered giant viruses (as big as 1 μm in length), named Pandoraviruses. Because more than 93% of their genes resemble nothing known and their origin cannot be traced back to any known cellular lineage, scientists suggest the existence of a 4th domain of life
yQWOa TIL that in 2013 a French businessman died of a heart attack while having sex with a stranger while on a business trip. A French court subsequently ruled that this was an industrial accident and that his wife and family were entitled to compensation
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DDbv TIL D.B. Cooper researchers (the only successful airline hijacking in U.S. history) in recent years, using SEM, lifted microscopic particles of pure titanium from the tie he left onboard (rarely used in 1971), narrowing the possible suspects from millions to 100s.