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TIL Heath Ledger kept a Joker Diary. In it he wrote as the Joker and included a list of things he believed the Joker would find funny including blind babies, geniuses with brain damage, and sombreros

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e0Mgn TIL that most of the tree is literally dead wood.
P1PeO TIL litotes is the term for using a negative to state a positive while implying mediocrity, whether out of politeness, modesty, or as something funny. Some examples that are "not bad" are: "your book wasn't awful", "he's not a terrible learner" and "Maradona wasn't a half-decent footballer"
9Yvxr TIL that in 1943, Canada declared the maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital extraterritorial. This was done so that the newborn Princess Margriet of the Netherlands would derive her Dutch citizenship from her mother. The royal family had fled to Canada three years prior due to the Nazi occupation.
Br7RK TIL sperm whales seek out habitats with large communities of bioluminescent plankton, which are not part of the whale's diet. As the plankton's predators (fish) approach the plankton, their glowing alerts the whale. The whale eats the fish. The plankton then turn out their lights.
xbB5 TIL Stephen Colbert is a devout Catholic and Sunday school teacher.