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TIL Batman and Robin rescued a cow that would later become Bat Cow, an awesome superhero.

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PXOG TIL The word “Jurassic,” which we so often associate with dinosaurs, comes from the Celtic word for “forest”
5YpR TIL on this day in 1977 (15/08/1977) a signal was received on the Big Ear Telescope in Ohio that is thought to be from outside our Solar System. No signal of this type has been received before or since this.
7rlDP TIL In 1994 Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose fortune is estimated at nearly $7 billion, bought out all the available rooms at the 250-room hotel to keep media from staying there and reportedly hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.
jykQ TIL that an orangutan kept escaping from his cage at the zoo using a key he had madr from a piece of wire. Every time the zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth!
M8dB TIL about a hacker who, while serving five years for hacking, signed up for a prison IT class, and successfully hacked into the prison’s mainframe