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TIL in the '78 cartoon series The New Fantastic 4, the Torch wasn’t on the show because NBC’s parent company Universal was developing a live-action Torch series that never took flight. Urban legend was the Torch wasn’t around because NBC was afraid kids would set themselves on fire

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BgeWe TIL that over 1.2 million spiders were "silked" to gather around 36.000km of spider silk from which the "Golden Spider Silk Cape" was woven.
LQPQQ TIL Anauralia refers to the absence of "internal auditory imagery". At the other end of the spectrum, individuals who experience Hyperauralia report ‘hearing’ imagined sounds very clearly indeed in their ‘mind’s ear’. Anauralia and Aphantasia are closely related.
lOGa TIL that Native Americans may have been called Indians not because Europeans thought were from India, but because Columbus remarked on their gentleness and called them “una gente in Dios” (Spanish for “people of God”). The ’s’ was dropped and Indio became Indian.
W8rY TIL Gardiners Island in New York is one of the United States’ largest private islands, has been owned by the Gardiner family for almost 400 years, and was granted to them by the King of England. It also has New York State’s oldest building on it, built in 1639.
D1lYV TIL that there is a town in West Virginia called Green Bank where citizens are banned from using cell phones, Wi-Fi or most other modern technology due to the presence of a hi tech government satellite. Because of this, it has become a sort of haven for people who hate modern technology.