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TIL: Steve Irwin's daughter, Bindi, was named after Steve's favorite crocodile

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m1n6x TIL that Pulp Fiction magazines with weekly serialized stories, were the predecessors to modern Comics and Manga, starting as early as 1896
LQRQ TIL The Space Age is 55 years old today. On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1.
rNXgd TIL Kodak patented the digital camera in 1978 but didn't release it until years later
JYkDQ TIL during the 2014 Groundhog Day festival, New York mayor Bill de Blasio dropped the Staten Island Zoo's weather-predicting groundhog on its head, killing it -- which was then covered up by zoo officials who claimed Staten Island Chuck had "died of natural causes"
VM80Q TIL showers were invented as a deliberately unpleasant treatment to cure the insane