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TIL that one of the Green Lanterns is a planet… a sentient planet.

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R5WP8 TIL the man whose wife and five Sunday school students were killed during WWII by a Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon then married the older sister of two of the Sunday schoolers, went to South Vietnam for missionary work with his new family, was kidnapped by the Viet Cong, and remains missing.
x6aLk TIL that some victims of the Hammond Circus Train Wreck 1918 were so badly burned, that they were wrongly thought to be African-American train porters.
epjPD TIL UK teenager Olivia Farnsworth has a rare condition known as chromosome 6 deletion, which causes her to not feel hunger, pain, or a sense of danger. She is the only known person in the world who possesses all three of these symptoms together.
N7rDb TIL the apatheism is not caring whether or not god exists
Z66a TIL the first same sex couple in History were 2 manicurists to the Pharaoh, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. They are depicted facing each other and embracing in their joint tomb with inscriptions reading “joined in life and joined in death”