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DJOr TIL that in Batman’s early comics, he used guns and killed criminals
VWwQ TIL if people worship other gods, the Bible says you must not only kill those people, but kill everyone else in the town, and their animals, then take all of the town’s possessions to the middle of the public square, then burn all of the possessions, then burn the whole town down, and never rebuild.
rRwad TIL Eagle Mountain, CA is one of America's newest ghost towns having been founded in 1948 and all but abandoned by the mid 1980s.
KYdVR TIL Bill Haast has the record for surviving the most deadly snake bites at 172. Haast disliked the record because being bitten was not something to be admired for. Haast's immunity has led to his blood being used as anti-venom substitutes and saved more than 20 lives.
NXbV1 TIL that it wasn’t until 1970 that the exclamation point consistently had its own key on most typewriter keyboards! If your typewriter didn't have one, the convention was to type a period, then go back and type an apostrophe above it!