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TIL Dr. Strange was given a mask early in his history to try and increase his popularity by making him a more standard super hero

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awYyN TIL that the Platypus lacks nipples so will feed it's young by essentially sweating out milk from it's skin
OGORa TIL that Jean Jaurès, a leading French socialist who tried to prevent World War I, was assassinated in Paris just three days before France entered the war. His killer was acquitted in 1919.
avJ0 TIL Artist Damien Hirst set an art auction record by selling one of his works for $19 million in 2007. The entire work is just a glass case with some random pharmaceutical pills in it.
b9Owj TIL that the infamous Kitty Genovese case that's often cited as an example of the bystander effect has been wildly exaggerated. The residents that heard her actually did call the police and a seventy year old woman went out to help her. Kitty Genovese died on her way to the hospital.
8a55P TIL Hilary Farr, the co-host of the HGTV and W Network television series Love It or List It, was Betty Munroe in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.