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TIL that X-Men writer Chris Claremont intended the character Destiny to be the lover of Mystique, a shape shifter, and had originally intended for Destiny and Mystique to be Nightcrawler's biological parents, with Mystique taking the form of a man for the conception

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Wknxo TIL there’s a species of parasitic nematode that induces “fruit-mimicry” in tropical ants. Infected ants develop bright red abdomens, tend to be more sluggish, and walk with their abdomens in a conspicuous elevated position. This causes frugivorous birds to confuse them for berries.
p8KpN TIL McDonald’s use wider straws to improve the taste of Coca Cola
4XWO6 TIL Up to 6000 Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by American tanks fitted with ploughs during the Gulf War
8aenb TIL about a sex manual which existed in China that listed 48 different ways of playing with women's permanently bound feet.
6EdOY TIL of Friedrich Lengfeld, the German soldier of WW2 who gave his life when he tried to save the life of an American soldier. He is the only German soldier of the Second World War to have a monument erected by Americans.