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TIL that the original X-Men Movie from 2000 is widely credited with paving the way for the modern Superhero Movie Genre we have today.

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MA4A TIL: The Percentage of airtime on Fox News dedicated to opinion is 55%. For MSNBC, it’s 85%.
7rxOr TIL during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the German 4th Panzer Division cut off 10,000 Soviet troops. They took 2,000 prisoners... and just let the others go. They simply couldn't afford to take them all prisoner.
E1dlp TIL that male cuttlefish disguise themselves as females to get past competing males and mate with females. If a male isn't as big and tough as other males vying to mate with a female, then he'll rely on cunning and stealth instead.
9ngm TIL the Khmer Rouge killed ~25% of Cambodia’s populace by making everyone work 12 hours daily on farms. Intellectuals were killed. Schools, religion, freedom to travel, money, factories, & hospitals were eliminated. The K.R. exerted control by limiting married couples’ visits & scattering families.
OX8Y TIL that during WW2 Nazi Germany had a hospital/concentration camp in village Krasny Bereg where they drained all blood from thousands of soviet children (obviously, killing them in the process) to transfuse it to wounded soldiers of the Wehrmacht