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

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epBxJ TIL that some historians believe Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, died from eating too many cherries and drinking too much fresh milk.
X8Z8 TIL that the classic PC game “Baldur’s Gate” was developed, alongside its engine, in 18 months by a team of 60 people who had never worked on a video game before.
e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson
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