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TIL that Batman was created almost at the same time as the Black Bat, a pulp fiction hero so similar that the publishers considered suing each other. They eventually found an agreement: the Black Bat wouldn't appear in comics, and in exchange, Batman wouldn't appear in pulp magazines.

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Nn8b TIL the last Australian Aboriginal nomads first made contact with white people in 1984. That year they came out of the desert and continue to live in modern society. One of them is quoted as saying ‘I wouldn’t go back.’
LkoLp TIL that The Big Beat, a 1980 song by Billy Squier, has been sampled in more than 260 recordings including Jay-Z's “99 Problems”, Alicia Keys' “Girl on Fire” and Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Higher Ground". The original song never charted.
ZpAD TIL that in 1957, a grandmother was hit in the face by a foul ball at a Phillies/Giants game. As she was being carried out of the stadium on a stretcher, the very next pitch, another foul ball, hit her again.
A5A7 TIL the Bell Rock, a reef in the North Sea, had been responsible for thousands of shipwrecks over the centuries, that is until 1807 when an engineer began the “impossible” construction of a lighthouse on the reef itself. Ever since its completion, the Bell Rock hadn’t claimed a single human life.
LZoP TIL that spending an average of 27 minutes each day practicing mindfulness exercises increases gray-matter density in the hippocampus, known to be important for learning and memory, and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion, and introspection over an 8-week period.