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TIL that Joker was intended to be killed off in his second appearance after his debut in Batman #1 (1940). But the decision was hastily withdrawn and Joker went on to become one of the greatest comic book villains and a pop-culture icon.

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Wkv1A TIL The USAAF developed a copy of the V-1 flying bomb during WW2
P14xG TIL that inhabitants of Machu Picchu were immigrants from different parts of the Inca empire, as bone damage indicate infection of parasites indigenous to different areas of Peru.
RjZa TIL in 2011 Japan had 442 total homicides. In 2014, on average, there were 490 suicides per week. It is one of the most disproportionate homicide to suicide rates in the world.
0w7LM TIL IQ tests only measure your intelligence relative to everyone else. If we as a group all got smarter or dumber, the IQ numbers would stay the same.
RQ18 TIL, in 1979, a small town in Australia fined the United States $400 for littering after debris from NASA’s Skylab space station landed in the town. The fine was paid in 2009.