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TIL in 1996 Marvel and DC comics created Amalgam Comics, which was the literal fusion of their two universes together, merging their characters into new ones, such as Darkclaw (Batman/Wolverine), Super Soldier (Superman/Captain America), and Iron Lantern (Green Lantern/Iron Man).

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9YNbB TIL 5-year-old William Everetz wanted to spend his allowance on kindness, so he saved his money for 5 months to buy lunch for the entire Winslow Township in NJ. He bought them Subway so they could ‘be healthy’ and the police gave him a shirt and badges, and made him an honorary officer
XE8Yj TIL: The landscape design where a grassy incline slopes downward to a retaining wall to contain livestock or as barrier that doesn't spoil the view, is called a Ha-Ha.
E14d7 TIL In 1946, the US agreed to turn over all of its nuclear weapons on the condition that all other countries pledge not to produce them. The Soviets reject it.
jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.
pY5Ke TIL that plants such as avocado and Kentucky Coffee Tree are known as evolutionary anachronism. They evolved adaptations, such as seed dispersal, best suited to coexist with extinct megafauna.