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TIL: In Superman/Batman #50, it is revealed that Thomas Wayne convinced Jor-El that Earth would be an appropriate place to send his son.

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PZPn TIL in July 2015, a boat fell victim to waves on Lake Havasu, Arizona, filled with water, and sank to the bottom. When the Search and Rescue team responded to recover the boat an hour later, they discovered a stowaway cat that was still alive inside the sunken-boat.
wLRgP TIL about a mutation in the ADRB1 gene that affects sleep. People who inherited one copy of this mutant gene had a shortened sleep cycle, sometimes requiring only 4.5 hours of sleep per night.
D1rXj TIL that before the arrival of Polynesians, New Zealand was occupied by large flightless birds called the Moa. The largest of these was the South Island Giant Moa which could reach up to nearly 12 feet tall, making them the tallest bird species in history. They only went extinct around 1445.
awYyN TIL that the Platypus lacks nipples so will feed it's young by essentially sweating out milk from it's skin
a8raL TIL of the Moriori genocide, a pacifist people of the Chatham Islands who were massacred and enslaved by New Zealand Maori in 1835 after being discovered by British Whalers in 1791