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TIL The comic Destroyer Duck was made to help fund Steve Gerber's lawsuit againt Marvel over the rights to Howard the Duck.

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VMDyQ TIL of the HMS Cockchafer, a British gunboat involved in the Wanhsien Incident. Chinese soldiers tried to seize British merchant ships as compensation for a boat accidentally sunk by a British ship and the Cockchafer intervened; the Cockchafer killed over 1000 Chinese and destroyed 1000 buildings.
obGR TIL more cops have died of illness linked to 9/11 than had perished in it on that day
78Q0r TIL that Calcifying Nanoparticles are self replicating organic particles found in blood and smaller than any known bacteria
Y70GB TIL of a case where occult spinal dysraphism (skin-covered spina bifida), dorsal accessory breast (extra breast located on the back), and polythelia (extra nipples) all occurred on the same patient, resulting in a breast with three nipples located on the patient's spine. [NSFW] [PDF]
0dEL5 TIL that if you tilt your head forward instead of backward, it’s easier to swallow a pill.