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TIL Wolverine was nearly called The Badger

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ZodD TIL that a musical work was so disturbing that it almost caused a riot, with “yells for the music to stop, mixed with applause to hasten the end of the piece.” One performer recalled: “One woman … repeatedly banged her head on the front of the stage, wailing ‘Stop, stop, I confess.’”
VBVRD TIL that half of all plastics ever made were made in the last 15 years
Br6mb TIL in 1986, a large male gorilla named Jambo stood between a five-year-old boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, after the boy fell into the gorilla exhibit and lost consciousness.
ZLoQ TIL that the author of ‘Fight Club’ once played a David Bowie track repeatedly on a jukebox to annoy other novelists that were trying to pitch a book to a publisher at a bar. It worked and the movie adaptation was made a few years later.
b9QMZ TIL Moths don't like light at all! They use moonlight to navigate by night. By keeping the moon at a constant angle, they could ensure they traveled in a straight line. Unfortunately, they now confuse electric lights with the moon and try to navigate by them so they keep going around it, confused.