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TIL Batman used guns until 1939.
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TIL: Summer Camps participated in Cold War diplomacy by having campers from the Soviet Union go to US camps and US campers go to Soviet Union summer caps.
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TIL of the lowland streaked tenrec, a black hedgehog-like creature with yellow-striped quills native to Madagascar. Despite its similar physiology, it is unrelated to hedgehogs, instead acting as an example of convergent evolution. It is sometimes referred to as a "fake hedgehog"
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TIL in Star Wars: Episode III, Ewan McGregorand Hayden Christensen (Obi-Wan & Anakin) practiced their duel so much and so long that as a result, the speed that Obi-Wan & Anakin duel (in the completed film) is at the actual speed it was filmed. The scene is better known as “The Duel on Mustafar”
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TIL That in 1889 a postcard was sent from Australia to Scotland and didn't arrive until 2001 - 112 years late
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TIL not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.