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TIL the creator of the Comic Sans font, Vincent Connare, credits Batman and Watchmen as his inspiration for the design

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0wE4p TIL Devonte Hart, the African American child famously shown hugging a police officer during the Ferguson Riots, was killed when his adoptive parents purposely drove off a 100 foot cliff.
15k7 TIL there is a legendary hobo rockclimber known as ‘Chongo’ who, while illegally living inside Yosemite National Park almost a decade, made a life by scavenging food, ascending sheer rock faces and writing a book called “The Homeless Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”.
p8byQ TIL it is common for truck drivers in India to elaborately decorate their trucks with colorful ornaments, kaleidoscopic images, iconography and bangles/jewels to create a psychedelic looking "Home away from Home" in honor of their culture and their families. It's also excellent advertisement!
N78g8 TIL that since 2019, 5 different actors have portrayed Bruce Wayne/Batman live action, or 12 if you count voice actors.
PRmO TIL in the 1980s that a powerful ring of MPs and ministers were sexually abusing teenage boys in sex parties in Elm Guest House in London. Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens gave a dossier of names of paeodphiles associated with Parliament. It was “lost” by the home secretary, Leon Brittan.