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TIL: Disney sued to keep full rights to Marvel characters including Spider-Man, Black Widow, and more from going into the hands of its original creator's families

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9Yv9G TIL Female Komodo Dragons can impregnate themselves without a male through a process called parthenogenesis. By forcing duplication of sex chromosomes they can give birth to male Komodo Dragons and keep their species alive.
gr10X TIL when Pat Riley became the Head Coach of the Miami Heat in 1995, his contract didn't allow him to bring his own video coordinator which spared the job of the existing one. That video coordinator was Erik Spoelstra and in 2008 Spoelstra became Riley's successor as the head coach of the Heat.
Am6w TIL Michael Jackson did actually star in the Simpsons episode “Stark Raving Dad” but DIDN’T actually sing any of the songs due to contractual reasons with Sony.
b95Aa TIL an Ohio court of appeals upheld that calling someone the n-word is not protected speech under the first amendment
J1Nal Til about kermitops, an extinct amphibian named after Kermit the Frog (the Muppets). The name means Kermit's face in ancient Greek.