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TIL Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side comics, is teaching himself digital art and has started to make new comics again.

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woljE TIL of an attempt to establish the first English settlement in America in 1587 -- before Jamestown -- called the Roanoke Colony. When a ship visited the settlement in 1590, the town was found deserted with the word "Croatoan" carved on a post. The whereabouts of the 117 colonists remains unknown.
yVLwl TIL the existence of black holes was first proposed in 1783 by John Michell. We weren’t able to capture an image of a black hole until 2019.
WkJ7A TIL that The Matrix, Chappie, and Westworld borrowed themes and outright scenes from 1995 anime film Ghost In The Shell
vPe0L TIL of a fox named Rambo in Australia who managed to avoid 10,400 traps, 3,500 poison baits, 73 stakeouts, and 55 days of scent-tracking dogs in an attempt to have him removed from a wildlife conservation area.
YXrB TIL in 1997, Nike, Inc. fined one of its shoe factories in Vietnam $5,000 after it become known that plant management ordered workers to create 51 rubber penises as a gag gift for a company Official.