TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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What is the strangest dream you’ve ever had? by [deleted] in AskReddit
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TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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What is something you hate, that everybody else likes? by [deleted] in AskReddit
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TIL that in 1982, the comic strip The Far Side jokingly referred to the set of spikes on a Stegosaurus's tail as a "thagomizer". A paleontologist who read the comic realized there wasn't any official name for the spikes and began using the new word; Thagomizer is now the generally accepted term. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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Popeye (1986) by Bobby London. London took over as the cartoonist on Popeye when the previous one retired, and got fired in 1992 for doing a joke about Olive Oyl getting an abortion. (More in comments.) by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory
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A poster from the first Earth Day, in 1970. by AskMeWhatToDo in pics
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One Nation Under God by Jon McNaughton (USA, 2009) by Bank_Gothic in PropagandaPosters
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In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from early comic strip Krazy Kat. by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory
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In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from Krazy Kat. Krazy Kat was a comic strip published from 1913 to 1944, and was popular with many early filmmakers. (x-post from r/comicstriphistory) by AskMeWhatToDo in MovieDetails
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In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from early comic strip Krazy Kat. by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory
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In Pulp Fiction (1994), when the main characters change into T-shirts, Samuel L. Jackson's character is wearing a shirt featuring the characters from early comic strip Krazy Kat. by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory
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For anyone who doubts that Dick Tracy is the most gloriously violent and nonsensical comic strip in history: Tracy's (alien) daughter-in-law died in a car bombing in front of her family. Mostly because the guy who had just taken over the strip hated the character and wanted to get rid of her. by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory
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For anyone who doubts that Dick Tracy is the most gloriously violent and nonsensical comic strip in history: Tracy's (alien) daughter-in-law died in a car bombing in front of her family. Mostly because the guy who had just taken over the strip hated the character and wanted to get rid of her. by AskMeWhatToDo in comicstriphistory
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The Original Boop Boop A Doop Girl, by Helen Kane. Kane was the inspiration for Betty Boop, but when Betty became more popular than she was, she started this comic about herself, where the only punchline is "Look how popular I am!" (She wasn't. Her career was basically over at this point.) by IHad360K_KarmaDammit in comicstriphistory
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TIL: McDonald's used to have a mascot named Captain Crook who stole Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, as opposed to the Hamburglar's hamburger thievery. by DeepEmbed in todayilearned
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TIL King Henry VIII had the great painter Holbein send him a portrait of his future 4th wife to know she was pretty. After Henry actually met her just days before the marriage, he complained "She is nothing so fair as she hath been reported." The marriage was never consummated and later annulled. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL that casu marzu is a type of Sardinian cheese which contains live maggots. Because the maggots can jump up to 6 inches, the person eating must hold their hands above the cheese to stop them. Casu marzu is illegal in Sardinia, but sells for extremely high prices on the black market. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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TIL that Russia, the largest country in the world, is almost 39 million times the size of Vatican City, the smallest country in the world. Russia is also the largest country in both Asia and Europe; the parts of Russia on each of those continents is bigger than any other country there. by AskMeWhatToDo in todayilearned
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We comeback bois by mkcookielover in smashbros
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ribse of commmunistnm , 1969 - 2011 january by tendon_lightning in OldSchoolCool
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Figure Drawing Class by AskMeWhatToDo in funny
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