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TIL in Selina Kyle (Catwoman)’s debut (Batman #1, 1940), Batman’s first words to her were “QUIET OR PAPA SPANK!”

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neE9o TIL that when America's first rocket scientist, Robert Goddard, theorized that rockets could reach the moon, the New York Times harshly criticized him and wrote that he "lacked the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." 49 years later, Apollo 11 succeeded and the NYT published a retraction.
JlK8 TIL Mom (Futurama) was included in the 2007 Forbes list of the richest fictional characters as well as named one of the top ten worst moms ever by time magazine
VMYA8 TIL after the success of ‘Shaun of the Dead’, Simon Pegg was asked if would he would leave England for Hollywood. He replied, “It’s not like we’re going to go away and do, I don’t know, Mission: Impossible III.” Two years later, he was cast as Benji in Mission Impossible III
kOxe4 TIL that in a 2005 questionnaire about substance abuse, 18.2% (163/894) admitted to taking derbisol – a drug that does not exist
klME TIL that East Germany lives on - as a tiny island off Cuba. In 1972, Fidel Castro gifted the island to East Germany. The island was not addressed in the 1990 reunification, and as such is still technically East German territory, even though the nation no longer exists.