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TIL that 3% of birds have penises

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WWy8 TIL the scene where Deadpool forgot his Hello Kitty backpack with all the guns in the taxi was written in, because the budget was cut yet again and they just couldn’t afford that epic action scene with all the guns and explosives anymore.
R75mj TIL that in the 1960s the CIA developed Tagboard, a supersonic resonance drone launched from the back of the M-21 (SR-71 predecessor) at Mach 3. It carried a high-resolution camera over a preprogrammed path, then released the film for mid-air retrieval, after which the drone would self-destruct.
NW18 TIL the biological theory that males are naturally promiscuous and females naturally monogamous was largely based on one study of fruit flies from 1948
P1AGn TIL tabloid newspaper "News of the World", once put out a headline "Hollywood Star's Nazi Secret," falsely claiming Arnold Schwarzenegger was a closeted Hitler supporter whose father rounded up Jews for concentration camps. The article's source? Sylvester Stallone.
17j7 TIL a 16th century French peasant was accused of being an imposter by his family after being gone for 8 years and then living with his wife and child for a subsequent 3 years. Just as he was about to be found innocent, the real husband showed up in court.