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TIL Wasps Can Recognize Faces

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kOPXg TIL in 1937, a man tried to find seats for himself and his wife on the Hindenburg, but there were none available next to each other. They took a plane home instead. Two years later, the man, Martin Goodman, went on to create Marvel Comics.
N7yX6 TIL that of the 77 Olympians competing in the golf tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics, 74 of them represented the USA and 3 of them represented Canada. Canada won the Gold.
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DQOlg TIL about autogynephilia, a sexual arousal for a man in imagining himself as female.
BB5x TIL of a disease known as ‘Stone Man Syndrome", a connective tissue disorder where the sufferer’s damaged muscle is slowly replaced by bone.