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TIL:There is a character in the X-men comics who has been on the team for years but, due to his power everyone except professor X would forget about him.

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b9oJj Recently, while looking at the vibrant lights of Hong Kong through a bus window, I noticed for the eleven-millionth time those little dots and that black band running along the edge of the glass. “What are these?” I wondered. So when I got home, I called up a major automotive glass manufacturer to find out.
Y7XBv Today I learned that one of the most respected beers among brewers is Orval, whose flavour develops as it ages, eventually tasting like a horse blanket.
78eVb TIL that a Dutch woman was denied Swiss naturalization despite having lived there for 39 years, because her 'neighbours' deemed her too annoying and not integrated into Swiss society since she often critized Swiss tradition of hanging large bells on cows' necks
WkDOB TIL following John F Kennedy's assassination, VP Lyndon B Johnson was to take the oath of office as president. Someone found a book with a cross on it on a side table in President Kennedy's cabin on Air Force One and assumed it was a bible. It was a missal, a book of Catholic mass texts and verses.
l7pYG Today I learned that Canada was going to build Nuclear submarines in the eighties