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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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9YBjB TIL that in 1890, an 8-year-old boy named Henry James Bristow saved his 3-year-old sister's life by tearing off her clothing when she caught on fire. She had knocked over a paraffin lamp on the mantlepiece. Henry was severely burnt in the process and later died of his injuries.
R74Kw TIL that Japanese researchers have created a chair that can read a person's "butt fingerprint" by registering an individual's unique contour and pressure distribution. It might one day be used in cars as an anti-theft mechanism.
mm5Y TIL “” …in 1900, 28 percent of the cars on the road in the USA were electric. EVs were so popular that even President Woodrow Wilson and his secret service agents toured Washington DC in their Milburn Electrics, which covered 60–70 miles per charge.“
kOkB1 TIL penicillin was first able to be mass-produced from a moldy cantaloupe found in Peoria, Illinois
nWBJG TIL the James Webb Space Telescope captured an eruption of water vapor that punched 6K miles (9.5K km) out into space from a geyser on the Saturn moon Enceladus. The largest spray of water ever seen in space gave unprecedented insight into how the moon's geysers supply material to Saturn's icy rings