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TIL that since 2019, 5 different actors have portrayed Bruce Wayne/Batman live action, or 12 if you count voice actors.

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WkbdL TIL that the award presented for the most battle ready ship is called the "Marjorie Sterrett" award. It is named after a 13 yr old girl who sent her allowance of 10 cents to the New York Tribune to help build warships for WWI. She asked that the next ship built be named "America".
BrRMK TIL Farmers sometimes put goldfish in a horses water trough to control mosquito and other insect larvae from producing
rNAgo TIL in 1864, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay teamed up to, in effect, almost wipe Paraguay off the face of the planet. In total, 60–70% of the population of Paraguay died as a result of the war, leaving a woman/man ratio of 4 to 1 (as high as 20 to 1, in the most devastated areas).
AD1aB TIL Karl Marx was known for his extravagant and wasteful spending
AlZo TIL aircraft windows and doors are round to prevent metal fatigue. As the cabin pressurizes, it puts extreme pressure on the airframe, which is concentrated at right angles. The original De Havilland Comet broke apart multiple times in the 1950s because it had square windows.