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TIL that Marvel's X-Men, and mutants in the Marvelverse in general, have been depicted as metaphors of RL social issues (esp. LGBT and the Legacy Virus = HIV arc).

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woVgJ TIL the Federal Bank's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium was first held in 1981 at Jackson Hole, WY, which is known for outdoor recreation. This area was chosen to convince then-Fed Chair Paul Volcker, an avid fly-fishman, to come speak.
vPE1B TIL that in the middle ages, men who wanted a boy sometimes had their left testicle removed as they believed that the left testicle produce "girl" sperm and the right testicle produce "boy" sperm
rwKw TIL Television show, “The Flintstones” sparked a lot of controversy by being the first cartoon series to show a couple together in the same bed as well as dealing with matters such as infertility and adoption.
78a1b TIL Russian Czar Ivan the Terrible beat his daughter-in-law so badly that she miscarried her baby. When his son was angry about the beating, Ivan struck his heir in the head so fiercely that he died 5 days later.
7rwjb TIL Spielberg began work on a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind called 'Night Skies' about a family living in a house being attacked by aliens which then split into both E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Poltergeist. In Gremlins, you'll see a theater marquee listing abandoned names for E.T.