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TIL Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", originally wanted Donatello to be named Bernini, after the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorzeno Bernini.

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pAPe TIL Tina Turner is no longer an American citizen. She has passed a German language test and Swiss history test and is exclusively a Swiss citizen after giving up her American citizenship.
xb15 TIL an extremely effective Lyme disease vaccine was discontinued because an anti-vaccination lobby group destroyed it’s marketability. 121 people out of the 1.4 million vaccinated claimed it gave them arthritis.
b9oop TIL that not all torpedoes are designed to pierce hulls then explode, some detonate below the target ship without making contact. This creates a gas bubble that causes the ship to be thrust out of the water then dropped back into the resulting void, often breaking the vessel in half and sinking it.
GYog5 TIL the word 'anecdoche', a conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening.
x6LOk TIL that in 1923 boxer Jack Dempsey was knocked out of the ring and hit his head on a typewriter by opponent Luis Firpo, but would still go on to win the bout by KO.