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TIL that when planning the landmark event "Crisis on Infinite Earths", DC hired a researcher to read every comic DC ever published. It took them two years to complete this task.

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xVMJ5 TIL of a Gravity Hill where a car in neutral will appear to roll up a hill, however, it is down to the surrounding landscape producing an optical illusion making the slight downhill appear to be an uphill.
YpyBB TIL In the late 1950s, a top secret United States Air Force project known as Project A119 (A Study For Lunar Research Flights) aimed to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
Akxl TIL while looking for a lost hammer with a metal detector in 1993, a man in England found the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold ever discovered in Britain. It was worth £1.75m (£2.66m today).
ANN4g TIL The subtitle for the 1880 novel Ben Hur is A Tale of the Christ. The movie poster for the 1959 film had "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents A Tale of the Christ".
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