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TIL Batman's creator, Bob Kane, initially envisioned Batman with a red suit and a domino mask. His friend Bill Finger contributed the iconic black suit, the name Bruce Wayne, Gotham, The Joker, etc. In 1965 Kane denied Finger's claims that he created Batman, stating that it's fraudulent and untrue.

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wLlmJ TIL the University of Erfurt in Germany was founded in 1379, and closed in 1816. But it was re-established in 1994 following Germany's reunification. Therefore, it claims to be both the oldest and youngest University in Germany.
d48E TIL that the part of “Jackie” on “That 70s Show” asked for an 18 year old girl. Mila Kunis, being 14, said she would be 18 on her birthday without specifying which birthday and won the part.
eKPL TIL That when the movie “The Rock” premiered on Alcatraz in 1996 a man windsurfed to the island wearing a wing-collar tuxedo shirt and bow tie, and then snuck into the celebrity party. He claimed to have already had a cocktail with Sean Connery by the time he was caught.
ajRA TIL British officers imprisoned in Colditz castle, an ‘escape-proof’ Nazi POW camp, tried to escape by tunneling out. They emerged instead in a German colonel’s wine cellar, where they proceeded to drink 137 bottles of wine, fill them with urine, and place them back on the shelves.
LkMAv TIL the reason seals, whales, and other diving mammals can hold their breath for so much longer than non-diving mammals is because they have a special type of myoglobin (oxygen-biding protein) that is positively-charged, preventing disease-causing clumping (like tau in Alzheimer’s).