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TIL Stan Lee once commented that he liked to work “science” into all of his stories, and that Hulk’s pants were the only time he never had a clue how the exact science behind it worked.

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5YxyB TIL that Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that causes people to see patterns in a random stimulus. This often leads to people assigning human characteristics to objects.
gJvD TIL “If I Ran the Zoo” by Dr. Seuss, published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word “nerd.”
1lWr TIL One of the founding members of Greenpeace left the organization because he believe that it had been taken over by left-wing political extremists.
1Ex4 TIL John F. Kennedy was the first president to not wear a hat during his inauguration speech. Sales of men’s hats plummeted and due to this and other factors, have never recovered.
0wvGy TIL Norwegian police has killed no more than 5 people the last 17 years, and only fired 33 rounds between 2002 and 2014.