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TIL a handful of Crips got their asses handed to them by Army Rangers in a shootout in WA in 1989

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ANAvg TIL An impoverished Turkish city named "Batman" planned to sue Warner Bros and and Christopher Nolan in 2008 for using the city's name without permission saying that “there is only one Batman in the world”.
QNdp9 TIL that in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a horse race at Belmont Park while being dead. He suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle, and the horse crossed the finish line in first place.
NXmAP TIL that while the human brain comprises only 2% of total body weight, it uses 20% of the oxygen breathed and 20% of energy consumed.
wLJLM TIL of cable car racing, also called spindizzy's capable of reaching speeds of 155mph+
4kmwb TIL after Mary Ann Bevan's husband died in 1914, she couldn't support herself & her 4 children.So since she had developed acromegaly, she decided to capitalize on her appearance & enter an "ugliest woman" contest & won.She was then hired as a "freak show" & made $1.6 mllion in today's money in 2 yrs