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TIL On the soundtrack to Batman Begins, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard named all the tracks after the scientific names of Bats and Tracks 4 - 9 Barbastella, Artibeus, Tadarida, Macrotus, Antrozous, and Nycterus, spell out BATMAN.

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yQOnl TIL the word "moxie", synonymous with "energy" and "spunk" originates from a brand of soft drink. As with many sodas, it was first marketed as an over the counter medicine called "Moxie Nerve Food". Moxie was created in 1876, is flavored with gentian root extract and is still sold in the eastern US.
egQ5 TIL ‘It’s always sunny’ was only given $200 for their original pilot episode
W0eX TIL the RMS Lusitania, the ship whose sinking was the deciding factor for the american to enter WWI, was carrying ammunition making a legitimate military target just as the German had claimed
g80y TIL in 1976 Elvis spent ~$16,000 for a midnight return flight from Memphis to Denver to eat a Fools Gold sandwich which consists of one jar of Skippy creamy peanut butter, one jar of Smucker’s grape jelly, and one pound of lean bacon fried crisp.
BYZy TIL that in 1964 there was a poll asking white New Yorkers about civil rights: about 50% said nonviolent demonstrations were harmful to the cause. A large number spoke of black people getting “everything on a silver platter” and there being “reverse discrimination” against whites.