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TIL Wolverine was nearly called The Badger

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AW77 TIL that David McCallum, the actor who plays Dr Mallard on NCIS, originally wrote and recorded a song called ‘The Edge’ which is today best known as the sample for Dr Dre’s 'Next Episode’
rR5MW TIL 40% of British government expenditure in 1833 was compensation paid to slave owners following abolition. The amount borrowed to fund this wasn’t paid of until 2015.
wnX7 TIL Many pedestrian crossing buttons do actually nothing. They are called placebo buttons and just comfort people.
7mr7 TIL a Florida highschooler was suspended for wrestling a gun away from another student, because he was involved in an “incident with a weapon”
D19jP TIL that mathematicians have proved a majority-rule democracy can be forced to vote in favor of any set of policies by constructing a series of intermediate policy sets, each of which a majority of voters will prefer to the preceding policy set.