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TIL the venom of the world’s most toxic spider causes priapism, a potentially painful erection lasting longer than 4 hours.

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LWdp TIL The British king or queen has two birthdays; their real birth date and one assigned to them during the summer, to assure better weather for the parade
DoDr TIL that those companies advertising, “settle your IRS debt for pennies on the dollar” are basically charging you a fee to fill out a form to apply for a government program they hope you don’t know about.
R7Z1w TIL of Glennon Engelmann, the "Killer Driller." A dentist by trade, Englemann was a serial killer who conspired with his dental assistants and ex-wife to kill their husbands in elaborate ways. Englemann would then take a portion of the insurance payout.
Y7eR7 TIL Saturn’s moon Titan is the only other world in the solar system other than Earth that has weather and liquid on the surface
G4M1 TIL that Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek swapped places on Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune as an April Fool’s joke in 1997