Post * e0ReJ — Curious Curator

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TIL that five years before Superman was created there was a pulp fiction Superhero called 'Doc Savage'. He was known as 'The Man of Bronze,' and had a 'Fortress of Solitude ' in the Arctic. He had superhuman powers, though was not an alien. He was known as a Super Man, oh and his name was Clark.

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E1lyX TIL Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son, was in close proximity to three out of four presidential assassinations.

GJG5 TIL that Viking blacksmiths would often add bones from ancestors or animals like bears to their iron ore to add carbon content, and to imbue the weapon with mystical properties.

bN4E TIL The concept of Combat Information Centers on warships was taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from science fiction.

e0nK6 TIL of a man by the name of Gerald Foo who bought a motel and built viewing panels into the ceiling of the rooms to conduct in-depth sexual research from the attic for 30 years.

PYppL TIL that everything alive today (humans, animals, plants, insects, bacteria) shares 355 genes with a microbe that lived 4 billion years ago. We are all related to this microbe.