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TIL That Batwoman was introduced in 1956 in order to quell suspicions that Batman was homosexual.

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eJRE TIL that after shooting down an American F-117 stealth attack aircraft in 1999, Serbian propaganda posters read “Sorry, we didn’t know it was invisible”
X748 TIL Florida doctors prescribe 10x more oxycontin than all the other states combined.
7EKr TIL that after 12 hours of continuous pain, a woman with no medical training successfully performed a C-section on herself with a kitchen knife and three glasses of hard liquor.
b9xw9 TIL there is there is an equation for how quickly a real conspiracy theory would reveal itself. The more people involved the quicker the truth comes out. Estimates if the Moon landing was really faked, it would have been revealed in under 4 years.
g9m4 TIL China does not have it’s own army. The ‘Chinese army’ is actually the military arm of the Communist Party.