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TIL that there used to be a Marvel-themed restaurant called Marvel Mania

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7r88M TIL scientists caught a skink evolving. Researchers found that skinks living below a mountain in warmer climates would lay eggs. At higher climates, the cold caused the skinks to hold their eggs inside for longer until they would hatch internally for live births.
BrXVK TIL barns are painted red because old paint recipes contained ferrous oxide (rust). Rust was plentiful on farms and because it killed fungi and mosses that might grow on barns, and it was very effective as a sealant. It turned the mixture red in color.
xVKO7 TIL a tree was planted in memory of Beatle George Harrison in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park — and died after a beetle infestation.
0w5yv TIL heat lighting isn’t real. It’s just lightning too far off in the distance to hear the accompanying thunder in a storm.
ERdd TIL the word “Gypped” meaning “to cheat, swindle”, is a racial slur deriving from the word “Gypsy”