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TIL: Ducks have ballistic penises and corkscrew vaginas

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wLBMW TIL that Catherine De Medici maintained 80 ladies-in-waiting, whom she allegedly used as tools to seduce courtiers for political ends. They were known as her "flying squadron". She also used them as a court attraction. In 1577, she threw a banquet at which the food was served by topless women.
Q88X TIL: Lobsters pee out of their face to display their dominance.
de8Q TIL Reddit is owned by one of the largest media companies in the world, Advance Publications, which owns Conde Nast (~20 major magazines), the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, over 40 newspaper companies, and more.
mj4R TIL in 1967, a magazine published a fake story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs. People didn’t realize it was a hoax and began smoking banana peels to try to get high.
LkYGV TIL X-Men is/was a metaphor for the civil rights movement. Specifically, Xavier as MLK and Magneto as Malcolm X.