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TIL there is actually a superhero called “normalman.” He was the only person without superpowers on a planet full of superheroes.

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W7Y5N TIL Time passes slightly slower on the International Space Station relative to Earth. This means that for every 6 months on Earth, a clock on the ISS will read .007 seconds behind
R7Vx1 TIL - When area codes were first introduced, they were set up so the highest populated areas would be the easiest to dial on a rotary phone. New York was 212, Los Angeles 213, Chicago 312, and Detroit 313.
mxe4y TIL of underground cock-fighting arenas in Miami, Fl. Rings included small boxes with glass windows that dramatically lowered the competing cocks into the arena at the start of fights. A cock-fighting referee was even murdered at one, a pouch of ref equipment hanging from his neck.
P1VvE TIL that FBI agents advised radio stations not to play "Sixteen Tons" in the late 1940s because they considered it subversive and accused Merle Travis of communist sympathies. Tennessee Ford's version later became one of the best selling singles in history.
Jonj TIL when Nicolas Cage was sleeping at his home, he was awoken by a presence. Cage awoke to find a naked man before his eyes, eating a fudgesicle and wearing his jacket. “It sounds funny” Cage said, “but it was horrifying”. Cage used “Verbal Judo” to get the man to leave. Cage now lives on an island.