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TIL that in 1951 a couple named Ray and Edith Batman sued the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the U.S, leading to the case name of being ‘Batman v. Commissioner’

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6YwJ TIL that a common mormon belief is that Bigfoot is actually Cain, killer of Abel.
Wk8po TIL that the USSR killed more than 180,000 whales between the 1950s and 1991 despite bans and fading commercial demand. The reason was that the quota for whales were never updated to match the need for them.
ANQrl TIL of BioSteel, high-strength fiber-based material produced by goats, genetically modified to produce spider silk.
0waBy TIL that ottoman kalkan shields were used from central asia to eastern europe (translation alert!).
No18 TIL a Soviet soldier who went missing after a battle in Afghanistan in 1980 was found alive in 2013, living in the Afghan city of Herat. He had been rescued by locals and eventually became a nomadic sheikh and healer under the name of Sheikh Abdullah.