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TIL: There is a published, peer reviewed article on iocaine powder, the famed and fictional poison from The Princess Bride

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nvkb TIL in 1934 Philo Farnsworth and RCA went to court to establish whose patent marked the beginning of TV broadcasting. In court, Farnsworth’s high school physics teacher testified that the boy, at 14 years old, first described to him the idea for a scanning tube, better known as a television.
16OE8 TIL Post war Japan is basically the reason why Mecha anime exist in Japan, because it reflected Japan's desire to rebuild Japan after WW2.
NXkQe TIL that in 2009, Culture club singer Boy George was jailed for attempting to falsely imprison a male sex worker. He was handcuffed to a 'wall fixture', and beaten with a chain before managing to escape.
wL8M TIL superhero is a trademark co-owned by DC and Marvel Comics, and no one else is permitted to use it on the cover of any comic book or magazine.
vkg7 TIL that outer space leaves an aroma similar to burnt metal on astronauts space suits after they do a spacewalk.