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TIL many Native American tribes used fire for thousands of years to manage forest brush for small game hunting as well as creating grasslands for big game to be hunted. This resulted in many species of plants, animals, and fungi to become extinct as the forest became a fire-adapted ecosystem.
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TIL that Batman’s suit, arsenal of awesome gadgets, and secret identity were not created by Bob Kane. Gotham City was not even created by him. All these creations belong to Bill Finger, who died penniless while Kane did everything he could to suppress Finger’s involvement in creating the character.
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TIL Newark, NJ was founded in 1666 by disgruntled Puritans from Connecticut. Wishing to start a theocracy, they named their settlement New Ark believing they were creating a new ark of the covenant. New Ark remained a Puritan theocracy until 1746 when Episcopalian missionaries built a church.
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TIL Thomas Wise was a keen collector of first editions in original condition dating back to Elizabethan era and given an honorary M.A. by University of Oxford. He parlayed his reputation as a collector of books into a career in creating and selling forgeries of nearly 300 works of English authors.
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TIL about “mundane science fiction,” a sci-fi literary movement driven by creating plausible extensions of existing science and technology; situating stories on Earth or within the Solar System, thereby lacking the use of interstellar or intergalactic travel; and not considering contact with aliens.
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TIL of Marion Stokes, a civil activist who purchased a Betamax VCR in 1975 and never looked back, recording thousands of hours of television over nearly four decades with multiple VCR decks, creating an archive of over 70,000 tapes. It is the largest known archive of television by an individual.
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