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TIL that when Patrick Stewart first saw an X-Men comic he asked, “What am I doing on the front of a comic book?”

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a8APL TIL Plane hijackings used to be common in the US by Cuban-Americans wanting to return to Cuba. In a 7 year span from 1968-1974, 130 planes were hijacked.
pYrx8 TIL humans can learn to observe their surroundings with echolocation. By snapping or clicking the tongue, humans can bounce sound waves off of nearby objects. The resulting echo reveals the approximate size and distance of the obstacle. Anyone with normal hearing can learn this skill.
WkY9A TIL NBC rejected a scene of bodies being shown splayed open and hung from a ceiling on the show Hannibal because their butts were visible. Executive producer Bryan Fuller suggested “What if we filled the butt cracks with blood so we couldn’t see the cracks?”. NBC accepted to then show the scene.
wLjOP TIL that Clancy Brown the main guard in Shawshank Redemption is the voice actor of Mr. Krabs from Spongebob.
9YxoX TIL that the term “Cup Of Joe” is named after Josephus Daniels. Daniels, a former secretary of the US Navy, banned the consumption of alcohol in the Navy. Thus, increasing the consumption of coffee which was referred to as a “a cup of Josephus Daniels” which was later shortened to “a cup of Joe”