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TIL Eminem is a character in the Marvel universe

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4AVw TIL That JK Rowling was originaly going to kill off Ron Weasley. During the christmas feast in the third year Ron was the first one to leave, meaning her prediction of “When 13 dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die” would be correct.
xV5O0 TIL that Bill Gates is making a genetically modified male mosquitoes with self-limiting gene to stop Malaria. During sex, the female mosquitoes will receive the self-limiting gene. This results in having their offspring die before reaching adulthood.
GAAXN TIL we get the word “tomato” from the Nahuatl people of Mexico.
R7a81 TIL that Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim sounds so similar to Tom that he often does substitute voice-over work for computer games when Tom doesn't have the time.
LkYy9 TIL about the Bard Prison Initiative, a program providing college education to inmates across various prisons in NY. Nationally, ~80% of inmates will return to prison within 9 years of release. BPI graduates have a recidivism rate of only 4%.