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TIL that a poll conducted in 1998 found that 61% of boys under the age of 10 wished they were Catwoman

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wL94Y TIL that US president Jimmy Carter issued a state of emergency in 1979 that is still active today, over 40 years later. This state of emergency gives "extra ordinary powers" to the president to "seize property, call up the National Guard and hire and fire military officers at will."
9a1B TIL CNN once had two reporters talk to each other via satellite while they were standing in the same parking lot
AD79n TIL about The Hyena Man. He started feeding them to keep them away from livestock, only to gain their trust and be led to their den and meet some of the cubs.
rvQM TIL that “Chinese” is not just “Mandarin” and “Cantonese”, but at least 7 distinct language groups, or hundreds of local varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible
X0BY6 TIL that in 2023 actress Olivia Hussey and her Costar Leonard Whiting sued Paramount for 500 million dollars, alleging that Romeo and Juliet, filmed 55 years previously, was child pornography.