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TIL Marvel created a new superhero called “Blue Ear” to encourage a young boy with a hearing impairment to wear his hearing aid.

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69Xnw TIL prostitution is illegal in Japan but the law recognize only vaginal sex. Oral, anal and masturbations are not criminalized.
ZoKa TIL Charlie Sheen once spent over $6,500 for 2,615 seats in left field of Anaheim Stadium, determined to catch a home run with 3 of his friends. No home runs were hit that day.
ZpxLp TIL that when casting the 1978 Superman film, DC approved the following people to play Superman: Muhammad Ali, Al Pacino, James Caan, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood and Dustin Hoffman.
VB0a0 TIL the air quality in Delhi, India, is on average between 200-500 AQI (poor to hazardous) from October through February. The worst was on November 8th 2017 during the “Great Smog of Delhi” when the smog reached its peak at 999 AQI.
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