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TIL Thanos (the purple villain at the end of Avengers) has a brother, Starfox, who is sex crazed and has a very rapey anaphrodisiac-like superpower.

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YpWOB TIL Korea's Royal Palace was burnt down during the 1592 Japanese invasions and left in ruins for over 250 years. It was rebuilt in the 1860s but later destroyed by Japan to build the colonial government building in its place. As of now, work has been ongoing for over 4 decades to restore the site.
DQ7WV TIL an FBI sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members of the United States Congress and others for bribery and corruption. The two-year investigation initially targeted trafficking in stolen property and corruption of prominent business people.
lojRV TIL that professional actor John Bradley (who portrayed Samwell Tarley in the TV adaptation of Game Of Thrones) had only graduated from drama school three months before landing his GOT role, which was also his first audition.
VMwOD TIL, when creating a forever stamp of the Statue of Liberty, the US Postal Service accidentally used a stock photo of the replica from Las Vegas's New York, New York, instead of a picture of the real one. When the mistake was discovered, they said they would have used that picture anyway.
0wM7M TIL the launching mechanism on an aircraft carrier could throw a pickup truck over a mile