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TIL that Dan Slott almost did a Spider-Man/Doctor Who crossover comic.

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rR5AW TIL that Buddha statues often depict elongated earlobes to show that Siddartha Gautama’s earlobes were once weighed down heavy, valuable earnings. He gave up his wealth but the earlobes stayed elongated
epWNJ TIL that a Milkshake Duck is a person who gains popularity on social media for some positive or charming trait but is later revealed to have a distasteful history or to engage in offensive behavior.
QNEnL TIL Courtney Love was the lead singer in Faith No More in 1984
dDXMK TIL: Prairie dogs build their burrows with a flat orifice at one end and a mounded one at the other. During a breeze, the different surface geometries create a pressure differential via the Bernoulli effect, forcing air to flow from the flat end to the mounded end, ventilating the burrow.
4Y4o TIL in the 1920s, people feared that crossword puzzles would contribute to illiteracy.