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TIL the cost of becoming Batman is around $682 million dollars, and Bruce Wayne’s net worth is estimated to be $6.9 billion

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wLJBo TIL on Take Your Child to Work Day in 2016, a kid visiting the studio accidentally took NPR off the air for a full minute along the west coast.
ADOjl TIL that Russia and the US are only 2.4 mi (3.9 km) apart due to the positioning of the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Diomede (US) and Big Diomede (Russia) are in view of each other, and in winter it’s technically possible to walk across the ice from US to Russia.
yQoga TIL The woman that accused Emmett Till of whistling at her inappropriately, Which got him murdered. Confessed it was all a lie on her death bed.
7r7xP TIL the air around lightning can get up to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. 5x hotter than the sun’s surface
1a8nV TIL that Niue is a member of some UN specialised agencies (such as UNESCO, and the WHO), and is invited, alongside the other non-UN member state, the Cook Islands, to attend United Nations conferences open to "all states".