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TIL a 1947 Gallup poll revealed 45% of the US thought Hitler was still alive

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4abg TIL when Alan Moore was preparing to write ‘The Killing Joke’, he asked DC Comics editor Len Wein if they had any problem with crippling Barbara Gordon (Batgirl). Wein replied, 'Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch.’ “It was probably one of the areas where they should’ve reined me in, but they didn’t.”
99DX TIL Cardiovascular disease is 80% preventable through diet and exercise
ANGpo TIL tourists often get lost on their way to visit Auschwitz in Poland, because the name is absent from both the nearby bus stop and train station.
6E5Jm TIL on April 19th, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann made his legendary bicycle ride home from his lab in Basel shortly after ingesting 250 micrograms of LSD, making this the first ever acid trip
xdl7 TIL Jack Black used to put wires up his sleeves when he was a kid in the hopes that other kids would notice them poking out and think he was bionic.