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TIL Batman’s creator Bob Kane stated his favourite interpretation of Batman was Val Kilmer.

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wGbM TIL That President Kennedy promised to “end housing discrimination with a stroke of the pen” when he got in to office; when he didn’t do so, Civil Rights groups sent thousands of pens to the White House in protest.
46j6 TIL in 1995 Michael Jordan ruined Muggsy Bogues’ career with one line of trash talk.
90or TIL that Rodney Dangerfield’s signature line “I can’t get no respect” came to him after watching The Godfather in 1972. “All I heard was the word ‘respect’. You’ve got to give me respect, or 'Respect him.’ I thought to myself: It sounds like a funny image — a guy who gets no respect.”
0Bx5 TIL a pound coin (£) originally weighed one troy pound of sterling silver, giving the currency the name “pound sterling”.
oBZG8 TIL Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson's, was a Hitman who was the first to kill a federal judge in the 20th century