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TIL about the existence of Platybelodons, a prehistoric elephant with the mouth of platypus

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bGy7 TIL that in the film The Dark Knight, the man who shouted “we are not intimidated by thugs,” to the Joker, was actually Patrick Leahy, the senior senator from Vermont and a self-confessed batman fan. He has appeared in a cameo role for every other Batman film since Batman Forever.
kOb91 TIL Hard Drives are Drive "C:/" because originally PCs only had up to 2 floppy disk drives labelled A and B, some time later hard disks got added and became drive C.
ANprl TIL Bungie recalled 200,000 copies of their 1998 strategy game "Myth 2: Soulblighter" as it was being shipped to retailers after a major bug was found in the uninstaller program that could cause most of a computers hard drive to be erased along with the game.
mx6Dp TIL of the 18 species of penguin, only 4 live in cold weather, the other 14 live in temperate or warm climates.
LkYpm TIL that four people were targets for assassination the night that Lincoln was killed. John Wilkes Booth was the only one who succeeded.