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TIL Hawaii is the only US state that has no rabies.

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4abg TIL when Alan Moore was preparing to write ‘The Killing Joke’, he asked DC Comics editor Len Wein if they had any problem with crippling Barbara Gordon (Batgirl). Wein replied, 'Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch.’ “It was probably one of the areas where they should’ve reined me in, but they didn’t.”
gMM8X TIL that black nationalist Marcus Garvey created a shipping line called the Black Star Line with the goal returning African-Americans to Africa
mxnlx TIL that pirates didn't wear the eyepatches because of a lost eye, it was actually to be able to see below deck, where it was dark.
rw7d TIL That there are (currently) more #1 MLB draft picks serving time in a correctional institution, than there are in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
mx5gy TIL that due to a researcher’s offhand comment about octopus DNA seeming “alien”, many news outlets mistakenly began reporting that cephalopods had actually come from outer space.