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TIL that The ‘de-militarized’ zone between North and South Korea is the world’s most militarized zone

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j6dKp TIL Fredric Wertham's 'Seduction of the Innocent' in 1954 criticized Batman comics for alleged homosexual tones. This led to a 'sunnier Batman' era , with characters like Batwoman and Batgirl introduced to counter the claims about Batman and Robin being gay.
E1a4w TIL in WW2 they used special smoke screens that were that were half a mile long and hundreds of feet tall to hide ships and blimps from enemies.
m1ZkO TIL There is one coal powered commercial ship still operating in the US. It's a 71 year old ship used as a car and passenger ferry across Lake Michigan in summer.
W7VJ8 TIL that almost all of the rain that falls in the US state of Nevada never flows out to the ocean; it's part of an endorheic basin.
wLMK7 TIL The Arizona Cardinals football team is older than the state of Arizona