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TIL - In 2016 after a video essay by Every Frame a Painting criticised the music in the Marvel franchise as being 'unmemorable'. Marvel acknowledge the video and sought to improve their scores, with Mark Mothersbaugh paving the way in Thor: Ragnarok (2017) the following year.

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4kek6 TIL about the Deaflympics, a periodic series of multi-sport events sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee at which deaf athletes compete at an elite level. The games have been organized by the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf since 1924
XEO1P TIL that the eagle featured on U.S. currency was modeled on a real bald eagle named Peter who used to live on top of the U.S. Mint. He died in 1836 but, like many animals whose admirers just can't let go, Peter was stuffed and is still on display inside the very building upon which he once nested.
neGB TIL that Adidas was founded by two German brothers, Adi and Rudi Dassler. After a disagreement, Rudi went onto create PUMA.
Vmj4 TIL: A Times Square club was fined $20,000 for barring non-Korean patrons
Jy81 TIL a volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. The man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.