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TIL Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee are cousins
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TIL that many heroes hosted the venom symbiote including Rocket Raccoon, Wolverine and Dr. Strange.
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TIL that Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, also wrote another book considered one of the worst horror novels of all time. The Lair of the White Worm has been described as "one of the most spectacularly incoherent novels ever to reach print", and H. P. Lovecraft called it "almost infantile".
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TIL Michael the gorilla was taught sign language by Koko, the first signing gorilla. He began signing “Squash meat gorilla. Mouth tooth. Cry sharp-noise loud. Bad think-trouble look-face. Cut/neck lip (girl) hole.” Researchers believed this was a description of the poaching death of his mother.
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TIL of Robert Johnson, a blues musician who played on street corners and died at 27 with little success. 23 years later, in 1961, his LP was reissued and became a huge influence on rock ‘n roll, including Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, who called him “the most important blues singer that ever lived.”
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TIL the world record for the highest jump by a horse is 8 feet 1.25 inches. The world record for the highest jump by a human is 8 feet and 1⁄4 inch.