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TIL there hasn’t been an indoor mall built in the US in nearly 10 years.

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NXMXM TIL that barbie doll actually has a full name and birthday! Her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts and her birthday is March 9, 1959, when she was first displayed at the New York Toy Fair.
P0mV TIL: In Superman/Batman #50, it is revealed that Thomas Wayne convinced Jor-El that Earth would be an appropriate place to send his son.
5JpB TIL that a third string catcher, Moe Berg, toured Japan with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1934 while working as a US spy. Berg spoke 12 languages and eventually spied on the Nazis during WWII. When presented the report to the president, Roosevelt responded “Give my regards to the catcher.”
wL5E6 TIL Chris Evans turned down the Captain America role multiple times because of Anxiety, fear of a 10-movie commitment and the public spotlight. He went to therapy before taking the role
RGE8 TIL “Confirmation bias” is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.