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TIL That Marvel has banned comicbook writers from creating new X-Men or Fantastic Four characters, stopped X-Men and FF merchandising, and cancelled the Fantastic Four comic all in order to spite Fox, who owns the movie rights

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O9rL TIL Fritz Christen was the sole survivor of a soviet skirmish. He held out alone for three days, without supplies or provisions, before a german counter-attack rescued him. During that time he single-handedly knocked out 13 soviet tanks and killed nearly 100 enemy soldiers.
BgrRD TIL Virgin Atlantic kept having passengers steal their popular salt and pepper shakers. Instead of removing them from the plane, they placed the words "pinched from Virgin Atlantic" at the bottom. The shakers then became dinner table conversation pieces and free advertisement.
rRoly TIL It has been a hotly debated subject for decades whether or not the presumed oldest musical instrument was purposefully crafted bone flute, or a cave bear femur which an animal chewed on
8a6vX TIL a civilian who went on a fly-along aboard a French Air Force Rafale B fighter jet was accidentally ejected during flight. He survived with back injuries and the pilot managed to land the jet with minor injuries to his hands from broken canopy glass but the cause of the error is unknown.
PY6pE TIL in October 1966, a soldier named Nguyen Van Leong, of South Vietnam, had an unexploded motor shell lodge in his chest, he was carried into the U.S. Navy Hospital, utmost precaution was used, the operation was a success, he survived & the bomb did not explode