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TIL that the chemical accident that gave Matt Murdock (Daredevil) his powers also leaked into the sewers below and created the Ninja Turtles.

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doA9 TIL In 2010, The Plain Writing Act became law. It requires all federal agencies to use clear prose that the public can readily understand.
xV4J7 TIL that Betty White's television career has gone on for so long that her first job was in 1939 and involved singing songs on one of the first experimental TV channels
QJd9k TIL the voice in your head while reading is subvocalization
y8g8 TIL that when Carl McCunn was lost in the Alaskan wilderness and a plane flew low by him, he put his fists up and started to celebrate being rescued, but the plane continued on. The fists were the signal to ‘ALL O.K.’.
yVLZl TIL in 2019 a South African doctor performed the world's first successful middle ear transplant, curing the patient's deafness