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TIL “Reading Rainbow’ was cancelled because of President Bush’s "No Child Left Behind”

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LkbZd TIL there once lived a species of pterodactyl dubbed Cryodrakon boreas, which translates to "frozen dragon of the north wind," that had a wingspan of 33 feet, about as wide as an F-16 fighter jet.
awNBy TIL Marvel comics filed for bankruptcy in 1996
yVyEl TIL about Behind Closed Doors, a book of pornographic SpongeBob drawings created by Nickelodeon storyboard artists. "The illustrations...contain scenarios such as SpongeBob masturbating, Mr. Krabs defecating into a toilet, and Squidward Tentacles 'reimagined as a sentient penis with tentacles.'"
1R68 TIL that a Peanuts character named Charlotte Braun was killed off by Schulz after a fan asked him to remove her from the strip. In his response, Schultz told the fan she was responsible for the death of the character and included a picture of Charlotte Braun with an ax through her head
nWXnG TIL that over 2,000 years ago the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes estimated the Earth’s circumference to be equivalent to 26,000 miles, a 5% error. He did this based on the Sun shining down wells in the Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Styene and knowing how far apart they were.