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TIL about Ōgon Batto (黄金 バット, or "Golden Bat"), a Japanese superhero who debuted in 1931, seven years before Superman and eight years before Batman. He is a being from Atlantis who was sent 10,000 years into the present day in order to fight evil with super strength, flight, and a rapier.

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oA7A TIL of the Catatumbo lightning storm of Venezuela.At least 300 days of the year a vast raging storm forms at the mouth of the Catatumbo River. It’s lightning, unequaled in strength, can be seen from 250 miles away and was used as a navigational beacon by colonial sailors.
0w4lj Today I learned that 57% of Russians think moon landing was a hoax
4opw TIL that the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, was an atheist.
RVOl TIL Between 1964 and 1996, the People’s Republic of China conducted 46 nuclear tests in East Turkestan, the homeland of millions of Uyghurs. Some of the bombs were 300 times more powerful than the one exploded in Hiroshima.
nen59 TIL Rupert Grint used his Ron Weasley money to buy an ice cream truck and gives out free ice cream to kids.