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TIL The Daily Planet, where Lois Lane and Clark Kent (Superman) work is owned by Bruce Wayne (Batman)

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KOXo4 TIL that Homer Simpson correctly predicted the mass of the Higgs boson (the God particle) 14 years before it was discovered.
dD4Md TIL that cicadas are the world’s loudest insects; their singing can be as loud as 100 decibels
MeEVm TIL that because of the skin affect and the relatively high frequency of the plasma created by a tesla coil, and the low current. You can touch the output of a small coil, and instead of it going through you, shocking you, it will pass over your skin into the ground
wLrLo TIL The design of The Simpsons character Dr. Nick Rivera is based somewhat on Klasky Csupo cofounder Gábor Csupó, though the show's animators mistakenly believed Hank Azaria, was impersonating Csupó when Azaria says the voice was actually a "bad" imitation of Ricky Ricardo from I Love Lucy.
yVboV TIL of Veryovkina Cave. At 2,223 meters (7,257 ft) deep, it is the deepest-known cave on Earth. In 2021, the body of a "tourist" was found 1,100 metres (−3,600 ft) down