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TIL: September 6th, 2012 is the 20th anniversary of Batman: The Animated Series

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v10lK TIL that the 1905 film The Little Train Robbery is the first ever parody film. The film is a sequel to the serious 1903 film The Great Train Robbery. Both films had the same director.
GAgE4 TIL While useful for those with dietary deficiencies, multivitamins offer no real benefit to the majority of the population. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found no clear evidence that consuming multivitamins "made them healthier in any way."
rbBM TIL the NHL was started because five of the six team owners in the National Hockey Association didn’t like the sixth guy and wanted to start a league without him.
7PQx TIL There was once a doctor who performed a xenotransplantation on a baby that sufferd fom heart disease by transplanting a baboon heart. The baby died. When asked why he didn’t use a heart from an evolutionary closer animal, he replied “I do not believe in evolution”
x6QK0 TIL that scientists use particle accelerators brighter than the sun to understand how plant roots can grow through hard ground, helping to engineer drought-resistant crops