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TIL that Alan Moore wrote Rorschach in 'Watchmen' to be Batman in the real world but didn't realize that 'smelling' and 'not having a girlfriend' would come off as heroic to comic fans. "Fans come up and say I'm Rorschach. This is my story and I'm thinking, Could you never come near me again?"

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P15ve TIL During World War II, a Pennsylvania dentist proposed to President Roosevelt to bomb Japan with timed explosives attached to thousands of bats.
9Yo5D TIL the Feynman Lectures on Physics, freely accessible online, is widely appreciated to be one of the most well written summaries of physics, and fully grapsing its brilliantly intuitive explanations allows one to enjoy a true understanding of the concepts
VB0a0 TIL the air quality in Delhi, India, is on average between 200-500 AQI (poor to hazardous) from October through February. The worst was on November 8th 2017 during the “Great Smog of Delhi” when the smog reached its peak at 999 AQI.
5YRjp TIL that four companies manage virtually all of the world's technical service network.
4kNOg TIL that vomitoriums in ancient Rome were the exits to stadiums and theaters which spewed crowds into the streets. They had nothing to do with purging to eat more.