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TIL Batman used guns until 1939.

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4kOGX TIL that strawberry boxes are called punnets, and that their inventor was an ancestor of the creator of the Punnet square
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XE8lQ TIL that the mild and much more common first stage of frostbite, the numbing and reddening of the skin, is called frostnip.
N7gA6 TIL about Derek Paravicini, an autistic, blind, and severely mentally handicapped piano savant. He can play, transpose, and improvise on nearly any song he has ever heard despite his disabilities.
ADGvx TIL The song 'Splish Splash (I Was Takin' a Bath)' came to be because the songwriter was challenged that they couldn't write a song that began with those first 7 words.