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TIL that Stan Lee, inventor of Marvel Comics, and Theodore Geisel, aka Dr.Seuss, served together in the Army Training Film Division during WW2.

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JYV0Q TIL the “foot” has two official lengths in the United States: That of the International Foot and that of the US Survey Foot
j6NdQ TIL the United States invaded Panama in 1989 to depose its leader Manuel Noriega
b6YMZ TIL that in 1991, Mark Fugate shot and killed his ex wife in her home in front of their 15 year old son. That son was beaten to death by his friends in the same house a year after his father's conviction
Wklo TIL that the Apollo 11 crew took a piece of wood and fabric from the Wright Brother’s 1903 Flyer to the moon.
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