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TIL that in Batman’s early comics, he used guns and killed criminals

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9Y4vM TIL That in the 80s Nestle tricked African villagers by giving them free baby formula thus causing their bodies to stop producing breast milk in order to sell their product for entire infancy, they even had sales people wear "nurse" coats to advise that formula was safer than their breastmilk.
kOO6m TIL the use of the word “scoop” in the context of news stories started with fisherman scooping water sealed boxes (full of news) out of the ocean and delivering them to land before wired transatlantic communications negated the need to do so.
kJwOm TIL in 1642, the people of New Haven, Connecticut were horrified by the birth of a "monstrous" pig with one eye. They became convinced that George Spencer, a local man with one eye, had sex with a pig and was the biological father. He was found guilty of bestiality and executed by hanging.
E6EV TIL that in 1983 Mr. T was the White House’s Santa Clause.
WL19 TIL that if a Duracell battery leaks, and destroys one of your devices, the company will replace the device if it is sent to them with the defective batteries still in place.