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TIL Golden Bat was one of the earliest superheroes in fiction; predating Batman & Superman, and was an 10,000 magic Atlantean skeleton who fought evil with a cane.

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Wk9oA TIL it is 100% legal be to buried at sea in the USA. You basically wrap the body in a sheet with some weights, at least 3 miles from shore and throw it off the boat. The Navy even has a program to assist veterans of the armed services.
ZpDvG TIL that ground-breaking comedian Lenny Bruce is pictured in the top row of the cover of the Beatles 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
vYG7 TIL that a compound called ClF3 oxidizes so well that it will spontaneously ignite upon contact with nearly all matter including ash, metal, glass, sand, and teflon. It reacts explosively with water, forming HF and HCl, and does not need oxygen to burn.
YyLZ TIL there is a town in Alaska where almost everyone lives and/or works under one roof. A single 14-story high-rise is home “to most of the town’s residents as well as its post office, grocery store, health clinic, laundromat and church.”
MGMA TIL that, due to the Napoleonic Wars, the capital of Portugal was moved from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro for thirteen years.