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TIL some flatworm species engage in Penis Fencing to determine who has to be the mother (they got both kinds of genitalia)

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QJ7xL TIL that not only were some WW2 PoW’s brought back to the US, any that were unclaimed after they died were buried at the base where they died. As a result, there are two Nazi soldiers buried at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, and their headstones have swastikas on them.
D1yor TIL Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast to play the creature in Predator (1987)
VMlA0 TIL John D. Rockefeller, although he was the richest man in the world, occasionally served as janitor at his church
49o TIL that the inventor of the Super Soaker reinvested most of his earnings from the toy into energy technology research.
YpOVv TIL the founders of Mensa envisioned it as "an aristocracy of the intellect", and was disappointed that a majority of members came from humble homes.