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TIL that the japanese anime Sailor Moon originally depicted Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus as a lesbian couple who often shared tender moments and longing glances. But when distributors took the show abroad, their relationship got altered.

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jKkM TIL Edward Norton commented on smashing the Volkswagen Beetle in fight club by saying, “We smash it … because it seemed like the classic example of a Baby Boomer generation marketing plan that sold culture back to us.”
MoJ7 TIL As a kid, Michio Kaku got 400 pounds of transformer steel and 44 miles of copper wire, to create a 6 kilowatt, 10,000 gauss magnetic field on his high school football field. He created a particle accelerator to find antimatter.
vPKGr TIL about the punk rock dentist, Dr. Bob, who has performed free dentistry on punk bands visiting Alberta for decades.
NXaJ TIL that the first European to describe the circulatory system was burned at the stake for heresy with his own books as the fuel.
mxmmM TIL of a NBA player named Reggie Harding who robbed the same gas station 3 times. When the cashier said, "I know that's you, Reggie," he responded, "No, man, it ain't me!" Unrelated to the robberies, he was shot to death in 1972 at the age of 30.