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TIL That DC won’t let Batwoman get married because superheros are not supposed to be happy.

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yjrX TIL Chris Farley was the original voice of Shrek. He even recorded 80-90% of his lines. None of the audio has ever been made public.
Bgdny TIL the Weird Al song “Bob” is written entirely in palindromes (including the title). It was written in 2002 (a palindrome) and the nonsensical lyrics inspired him to make it a Bob Dylan parody.
9ZMr TIL Carlsberg brewery gifted Niels Bohr a house with a pipeline connected to its brewery next door, thus providing him with free beer for life
JGG8 TIL of “Bitchin’ Betty”, a voice system in military aircraft that warns pilots by literally shouting at them seconds before they need to turn so they don’t crash
VBvAp TIL that the Sagamihara stabbings occurred on 26 July 2016 in Sagamihara, Japan. Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six injured at a care home for disabled people. The attacker, former employee Satoshi Uematsu, surrendered and was sentenced to death. It is Japan’s deadliest mass stabbing.