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TIL that Kevin Conroy (Batman in Batman the Animated Series) volunteered at a kitchen serving first responders after 9/11 and cheered up the diners by doing his Batman voice

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Vm8p TIL The Scottish army tried to take advantage of the Black Plague in England through an invasion, but caught it themselves and brought it back to Scotland, killing half of the native population.
oRx5R TIL that Rocky Marciano’s opponent Roland La Starza, had to get surgery for bones, muscles and nerves, just on his arms, after Marciano was done with him.
GAxBN TIL that Eisenhower had an alternate speech prepared in case the D-Day invasion failed in which he takes full responsibility for the failure by calling the decision to attack “my decision” and going on to write: “If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
1aVvP TIL there is giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.
QJnZ6 TIL near the end of WWI, a small fortified town in France called Le Quesnoy was liberated from the Germans after four years of occupation, by New Zealand soldiers in a sneak attack, with zero civilian casualties. Multiple memorials and many of the town's streets are named in NZ's honour.