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

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EZ1p TIL A Gurkha Soldier of the Indian Army single handedly fought off 40 armed bandits with his knife killing 3 and injuring 8 to save a girl from getting raped during a train robbery in India
Zp8LD TIL Universal Studios wanted John Landis to cast Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in the lead roles in American Werewolf in London. Landis rejected this and went for unknown actors instead.
6E1kZ TIL that Osama bin Laden loved sunflowers and one of al-Qaeda’s training centres was on his sunflower farm in Sudan
YorP TIL The Stethoscope was invented because French physician Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec felt uncomfortable placing his face on a woman’s breasts to listen to her heartbeat
oB6Gr TIL that a tornado appeared out of nowhere in DC after the British set fire to the White House in 1814, putting out the flames and killing more soldiers than the American resistance.