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TIL Burt Ward did a lot of his own stunts while shooting Batman because his stuntman looked nothing like Ward. Ward went to the hospital all four days in a row shooting the pilot.

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16GBP TIL that the Isle of Man has an invasive species of up to 100 Wallabies that escaped from wildlife park in the 60s
QNKDd TIL Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult, and developed the theory of gravity based on occult belief in “action at a distance”
n1Vr TIL that comparatively little is known about Bełżec, a Nazi extermination camp at which ~0.5 million people died, because evidence of the camp’s existence was almost entirely erased before the war’s end and only 2 survivors were able to give testimony.
xVZDk TIL that in rural areas of late 19th & early 20th century America, it was the norm for the sheriff’s family residence and the jail to share adjacent spaces
4k87b TIL that, besides sickle cells, there are nine other types of Pokilocytes or misshapen red blood cells. These include: spherocytes (round), elliptocytes (oval) and dacrocytes (tear-drop). The causes and effects are as varied as the shapes.