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TIL, Kevin Conroy the voice of Batman was living in NYC during 9/11 and after the attack was a volunteer cooking meals for responders. When told, the people eating the food called BS and demanded he prove it. When he did it did a lot for the mood. Because he's Batman.

VBlGm TIL The stirring theme from 'The Last of the Mohicans' was originally written to accompany a Loch Ness Monster museum exhibit
DQ5Le TIL of Special Force, a 2003 Lebanese video game developed by Hezbollah, which recreates battles from the South Lebanon conflict from Hezbollah's POV. After being released in countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Bahrain, and the UAE, 8,000 copies were sold in one week
wLGNJ TIL "Spotlight effect" is a feeling in which you overthink that you are being continuously observed, noticed, and judged by others (like walking into a room full of people or participating in a meeting discussion). The effect arises from being extremely self-conscious about what others may think.
BKgy TIL of the Wereth 11, a group of eleven black soldiers separated from their battalion during the first few days of the Battle of the Bulge. Even though the eleven men surrendered to the Germans, they were taken to a nearby field where they were tortured and then murdered.
BgdAK TIL about Prophyrios, a whale that wreaked havoc on ships over a 50 year period in Greece during the middle ages. The Greek king made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to do so.