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TIL that the Gotham General Hospital blown up in the film, The Dark Knight, was an actual abandoned building in Chicago, IL that had housed the administration of what was once the world’s largest candy factory (Brach’s).

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4XMoR TIL at the Battle of Megiddo, General Allenby won one of the most decisive victories during WWI against the Ottoman Empire. He attacked through the narrow Musmus Pass, a risky tactic he had learned from reading about Egyptian Pharao Thutmose III during the Battle of Megiddo in the 15th century BCE
QNWgd TIL sleep helps clean our brain. Or in the words of the journal Science, “Observations showed that when mice sleep, channels between neurons in their brains expand, allowing cerebrospinal fluid to flush out detritus, such as proteins that in human beings are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.”
ADEX7 TIL that when filming the TV series "The Mandalorian" in 2019, the crew ran out of Stormtrooper costumes, so they reached out to the local branch of a Star Wars fan organisation, whose members came to join the filming in their own home-made Stormtrooper costumes
Oovg1 TIL: Buckey O'Neill of the "Rough Riders" insisted officers shouldn't duck when shot at. To a concerned fellow soldier he blew cigarette smoke and said, "Sergeant, the Spanish bullet isn't made that will kill me." The same day, a Spanish bullet fatally struck him through the mouth and out the skull.
x6ENo TIL the man who eats practically only Big Macs featured in ‘Supersize me’ has a problem with his tastebuds and often doesn’t even taste the sandwiches