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TIL Marvel created a superhero named Throg. He is a frog that has the power of Thor and is in a group called the Pet Avengers.

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BreVD TIL that the interior design magazine Homes & Gardens did a piece complementing Adolf Hitler’s chalet.
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78AEP TIL That there are stories of mystical cities in the Philippines as well like the story of the Lost City of Biringan.
bZ4Q TIL there is still a woman alive who lost her fiance in World War I. Grace Jones, the last living Briton born before 1900, says she never married after the death of her young fiance Albert Rees in the war as she never found anyone as nice as him
k4A4 TIL Charles Wagner - inventor of the electric tattoo machine - was arrested in in 1943 and released with a small fine after arguing he was doing “essential war work,” tattooing clothes on naked women, thus allowing tattooed men to join the Navy.