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TIL that The initial intention was that Joker was originally meant to be killed off in Batman #1

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M7LYV TIL there’s a secret material called FOGBANK that is used in nuclear warheads. "The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified.”
p87dQ TIL that in the 1500s a Greek Protestant adventurer named Iacob Heraclid went around Europe pretending to be royalty and managed to make himself Prince of Moldavia for two years before being killed.
PYR8E TIL that termites are actually highly social cockroaches. Although they resemble ants or bees genetic research has places them into the Cockroach family.
ne689 til: The guy who invented the gas mask (respirator) died in a balloon accident at the age of 31. As a result his soon to be wife killed herself
ZpayR TIL: the term plastic explosive has nothing to do with modern plastic, it denotes explosives that can be shaped by hand, stemming from the original meaning of the word plastic, meaning something malliable/formable.