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TIL that Jack Kirby - co-creator of Captain America - had street fights with Nazi sympathisers and later fought behind enemy lines in WW2.

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R7a9j TIL that the mascot for Vlasic pickles is a stork because they're associated with delivering babies and pregnant women crave pickles.
gMv99 TIL Yousuf Karsh, the photographer of the scowling Winston Churchill portrait took the photo after snatching Churchill's cigar while he was smoking it.
G4xQ TIL an Air Canada passenger flight took a detour and dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet to help find a stranded yacht off the Australian coast. It took the passengers 25 minutes after the emergency beacon was activated to locate the yacht.
PYjAJ TIL Jason Todd was going to die of aids
OGXEX TIL Alexander Fleming on discovering penicillin was quoted as saying: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.”