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TIL that Abraham Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame, having lost just once in 300 matches

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vg47 TIL If the story told in the animation “Finding Nemo” was real, when Nemo’s mum and siblings got eaten, Nemo’s dad would have developed female gonads and formed a breeding pair with Nemo.
4abg TIL when Alan Moore was preparing to write ‘The Killing Joke’, he asked DC Comics editor Len Wein if they had any problem with crippling Barbara Gordon (Batgirl). Wein replied, 'Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch.’ “It was probably one of the areas where they should’ve reined me in, but they didn’t.”
78x TIL the arrow in the Arabic FedEx logo points to the left
R5mpj TIL that perfect pitch is more common among music students who speak tonal languages such as Chinese dialects and Vietnamese, than it is among English speakers.
ADmaa TIL that there is an 8th continent submerged almost entirely under water called Zealandia by New Zealand.