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TIL Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a parody spinoff of Daredevil. Their origins stemming from the same incident that blinded Matt Murdock.

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wLBjJ TIL of fake psychic Eva Carrière, who together with lover Juliette would entertain mainly male audiences in 1900s France. During seance she would run around naked and engage sexually with the audience, while Bisson would strip and demand gynecological examination to prove no 'ectoplasm' concealment
PYpDZ TIL that in the Vietnam War, the Americans fired 50,000 bullets for each enemy killed
JYj14 TIL that old, weak, malnourished whales will simply sink, unable to reach the surface and suffocate to death...
AlK7 Today I learned that the price of admission for a zoo in 18th century England was a dog or a cat, which were fed to the lions
VMM6Z TIL that the words celadon, gargantuan, and malapropism, as well as many others are actually characters from stories that later entered common language.