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TIL that to get into character when playing the Joker, Heath Ledger locked himself in a motel room for 43 days straight. This allowed him to feel isolated and alone with his thoughts, helping him perfect the crazed. psychopathic Joker that we all ended up seeing on screen.

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KgKw TIL Switzerland requires it’s citizens to train yearly in firearm handling and to own a gun with live amo + has extremely low homicide rates
ERA7 TIL a store refused to decorate a 3 yr old child’s cake with “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler!” The public attention from his father’s outrage at this refusal expedited his removal from the home. The father no longer has custody of any of his 9 children due to “instability” and lack of court compliance.
wLVJ7 Air turbulence will likely get worse as the planet warms
B7Yk TIL the first ever parking sign was from c. 700BC, Ancient Assyria, and read “ROYAL ROAD - LET NO MAN DECREASE IT”. The penalty was being impaled in front of your house.
YrYr TIL During the campaign of 1920, President Warren G. Harding was accused of making up a word: “normalcy.” When asked if he instead meant “normality,” Harding responded “I have looked for ‘normality’ in my dictionary and I do not find it there. 'Normalcy’, however, I did find, and it is a good word.”