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TIL The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a parody of Daredevil, e.g. the turtles were changed in the same chemical spill and they fight “The Foot” instead of “The Hand.”

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nWeOG TIL, The poingnant "Web of Life" Speech supposedly delivered (or written) by Chief Seattle in 1855, was actually an invention of screen writer Ted Perry for the 1972 environmental film Home
yQrr8 TIL: The Soviet K-429 nuclear submarine sunk twice and then became a training sub
KYABE TIL American writer Jack Kerouac served on SS Dorchester which was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 3 February 1943. Kerouac would have also been on the ship during the attack, but for a telegram he received from coach Lou Little, asking him to return to Columbia University to play football.
VMXX4 TIL that the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, was a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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