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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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mxJOE TIL John Gotti's 13 year old son was struck by a car and killed when he darted out into a street on a mini motorbike. The driver of the vehicle, a neighbor whose son had previously slept over at the Gotti house, disappeared 5 months later. He was allegedly shot in the head and dissolved in acid
npjG TIL that the French lost more men in battle during the American Revolution than the Americans did.
lgAK TIL a French man fell in love with someone he thought was a female Chinese opera singer, and had a decades-long affair that resulted in a child… only to discover that the whole time the singer had actually been (a) male and (b) a spy.
aw4LM TIL that when Kubrick was researching for Dr. Strangelove, sexual metaphors for war came up so often that one of his consultants told a group of officers, "Gentlemen, you do not have a war plan. You have a Wargasm!"
nWPP TIL there is a “green” cemetery in Pennsylvania that doubles as a national forest where people can hike and picnic. No caskets, no formaldehyde, just dirt and trees.