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TIL That Jason Todd died in Batman because of a poll where calling 1-(900)-720-2660 voted in saving Jason or 1-(900)-720-2666 to kill him after 10,614 votes where 5,343 in favor of killing him and 5,271 in saving him and it was later revealed that one guy called to kill Jason over 100 times

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xY4k TIL the man who killed President McKinley, often dismissed as a mentally disturbed anarchist, did it in part due to US policies in the Philippines at the time, which though nearly forgotten today, resulted in the deaths of 200k-250k civilians and over 5,000 US troops
DWmJ TIL there is a man who has been walking around the world since 1998. He is currently in Russia.
W77KA TIL between the time he murdered his wife and son and the time he killed himself, pro wrestler Chris Benoit attempted to reschedule his flight from Atlanta to Texas so he could perform at that weekend's WWE pay-per-view, where he was scheduled to face CM Punk for the ECW Championship.
NLN1 TIL: There is a longer gap in time between the invention of the motorcycle and the first backflip on motorcycle, then there is the invention of flight and us landing on the moon.
8ZkL TIL that during the Prohibition era, the US Government made an exception for Whiskey to be sold through pharmacies. As a result, the Walgreens pharmacy chain grew from 20 retail stores to almost 400.