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TIL the family of a deceased man in Winter Haven, Florida claimed the cause of his death was an upper-cut from Batman in his newspaper obituary notice.

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DRmY TIL Lassie, Old Yeller, Toto, Benji and more famous movie dogs were all trained by the same family.
9wBJQ TIL around 80% of a badger’s diet is made up of earthworms – they can eat hundreds of them in a single night – but they also eat slugs and other invertebrates along with apples, pears, elderberries and plums. When earthworms are scarce, badgers will eat small mammals like voles, hedgehogs & rabbits.
pxMO TIL that a good method for deterring cheating is endangering a subject’s self image as an honest person. Instead of asking people not to cheat, we should ask people to not be cheaters.
6QYZ TIL the oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima because it was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945.
jvwM TIL there is an unofficial ban Richard Wagner’s operas in Israel, due to its connection to Adolf Hitler and Wagner’s own anti-Semitic writings.