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Today I learned birds are also reptiles

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XEpxX TIL that in 1937 Martin Goodman, the founder of Marvel Comics bought tickets on the Hindenburg to return from his honeymoon in Europe, but couldn't get seats together with his wife, so they took an airplane instead. Marvel Comics #1 came out two years later.
KOn9J TIL in 2015 German Actor Rainer Bock guest starred in an episode of "Homeland" titled 'Better Call Saul'; 3yrs later he had a recurring role for 6 episodes on the TV Show "Better Call Saul"
GAGn7 TIL that there was an Aunt Jemima pancake restaurant at Disneyland from its open in 1955 until 1967.
JpXv TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House. The New York Times made light of the outrage at the time calling the “imagined humiliation and degradation” of Ota Benga “absurd” because “pygmies are very low in the human scale”
epOk4 TIL when Al Smith won South Carolina with 91.39% in 1928, it was the worst result for a winner of South Carolina in a presidential election after 1896 and prior to 1944.