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TIL in 1985 Cannon Films bought filming right for Spider Man, believing it was wolf man like character. In their treatment, Peter Parker transforms into eight armed hairy monster.

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yQMkl TIL there is a hybrid of a cow and a bison and they are called 'Beefalo'.
LkGV TIL Freddie Mercury’s album “Mr Bad Guy” was dedicated “to my cat Jerry- also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe- screw everybody else”
X0vQ8 TIL of the Association of German National Jews - a pro-Nazi Jewish organisation. Founded in 1921 as an anti-communist body it wholeheartedly supported the Nazis arguing their anti-Semitic stance was only rhetoric. It was banned in 1935 and it's founder taken by the Gestapo.
neMZ9 TIL - A British company called Aquafuel Research Ltd was commissioned by Formula E to build a pair of mobile generators that run on a fuel that is virtually emission free – glycerine
1MZ4 TIL the fanged pitcher plant and the carpenter ant have a mutualistic relationship whereby the plant’s stem provides a home for small colonies of ants who in turn keep the chemistry of the pitcher’s liquid balanced by removing large insects from inside, preventing the liquid from spoiling.