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TIL that 3% of all movies in the 1960s featureed quicksand

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aLNy TIL that a 6-minute, fan-made Batman movie exists where Batman fights Predator, Alien, and the Joker. It premiered at Comic Con in 2003 and Kevin Smith called it “possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made.”
d1D7 TIL Asimov’s law states: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
jN6lR TIL Rob McElhenney from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" willingly gained 50 pounds in preparation for Season 7 of the show. He consumed 5000 calories per day, and only stopped when his doctor said that his lifestyle was putting too much stress on his heart.
JrXV TIL Near the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you can place your hand across a geological division where the difference in age between the rock touching your upward fingers and the rock touching the base of your hand is more than 1 billion years.
J1vrk TIL In 2002 Stephen Hawking emailed young researcher Thomas Hertog that his book A Brief History of Time is wrong. Hertog and Hawking then collaborated closely for the next 20 years, resulting in the book "On the Origin of Time" in 2023