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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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LndV TIL The Three Stooges, during their 23 years with Colombia Pictures, were chronically underpaid and never received a pay increase, because the head of the studio convinced them that they were unpopular with audiences.
GYJvQ TIL about the Montreal Botanical Garden, a historic garden in Quebec, Canada that is considered one of the most important botanical gardens in the world due to the extent of its collections and facilities in addition to its natural beauty.
XEme6 TIL a brain injury sustained during a mugging turned a man who used to think "math is stupid" into a mathematical savant with a form of synaesthesia that lets him see the world in fractals.
P1AGn TIL tabloid newspaper "News of the World", once put out a headline "Hollywood Star's Nazi Secret," falsely claiming Arnold Schwarzenegger was a closeted Hitler supporter whose father rounded up Jews for concentration camps. The article's source? Sylvester Stallone.
EgJPV TIL Bahia Bakari was 12 years old when the plane she was flying on crashed near Madagascar and sunk in 3900 feet of water. 152 people died, she was the sole survivor.