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TIL Val Kilmer visited the set of the Batman TV series as a child, though had no recollection of it

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BrrmK TIL Shelley Duvall from the Shining is struggling with mental illness
LkwVZ TIL That the domesticated hamsters we now call pets are all descended from one “Adam and Eve” like pair captured in Aleppo, Syria in 1930.
vlK8 TIL that mollusk teeth are made of the strongest biological material in nature. At 5 times stronger than spider silk, a spaghetti-sized strand can hold the weight of an adult female hippopotamus.
LkB4v TIL Thomas Paine introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income in 1795. [Government must] create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling.
78lPO Today I learned that the Cool S symbol is trademarked in the United States, but owner trademarked it to preserve it.