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TIL DC Comics once created a superhero whose special power was his ability to detach his own limbs, his name: Arm-Fall-Off-Boy

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4YOg TIL your state’s highest paid public employee is probably a football coach
xVY65 TIL Consumer Reports was blacklisted by McCarthy from 1945-1954 as a Communist organization for reporting on serious life-threatening product flaws and advocating for fair treatment of workers
Jxw8 TIL that when asked for his thoughts on the migration of New Zealanders to Australia, the Prime Minister of New Zealand stated that the “annual exodus of Kiwis to Australia raised the average IQ of both countries”.
8oVV TIL of a black New York pastor in 1947 who decided to travel to Alabama in a turban and with a fake accent, posing as a foreign dignitary. His disguise allowed him in white-only areas, and he was treated with little discrimination.
g9p4 TIL while filming ‘Breaking Bad’, actress Julia Minesci who plays Wendy, was approached and propositioned for her services by a non-actor. He had mistaken her for a real prostitute…