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TIL Tom Hardy (Bane) said that the most difficult parts of the The Dark Knight Rises to shoot were the fight scenes. Not because of the physicality of them, but because he was such a huge Batman fan growing up that he said “it felt like I was beating up my childhood hero.”

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5YpPP TIL Metallica Feeds the Hungry on Every Stop of Their World Tour
KOPNa TIL Earth is wider at the Equator, so to make a rotation in one 24-hour period, equatorial regions race nearly 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) per hour. Near the poles, Earth rotates at a sluggish 0.00008 kilometers (0.00005 miles) per hour.
6Eodm TIL of Owen J. Baggett who was the only person ever to shoot down an aircraft using a pistol
rldd TIL that chastity belts weren’t used during medieval times. They were actually used in the 1800’s to prevent children from masturbating and to protect women from sexual harassment in the workplace.
P1k5w TIL about the Ship of People Incident in which Norman Macleod of the Isle of Skye kidnapped young men and girls to ship them to America and sell them as indentured servants. When the people were discovered, Norman Macleod claimed that he was shipping off convicts, a practice which was legal.