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TIL during a dissection of a 78 year-old man, members of the University of Birmingham Medical School found that he had triphallia (three penises)

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p8g1e TIL in 1998, a minister who was using a .357-caliber Magnum to compare sin to Russian roulette died five days after shooting himself in the head with a blank round and shattering his skull in front of several hundred parishioners, including his family.
jNbnX TIL that in 2003, there was a movement in America to rename the "French" part of French Fries, French Toast, etc, to "Freedom" (Freedom Fries, etc) after France refused to support the Iraqi war - Demonstrators even included government officials in Congress.
pYdG4 TIL Australia has a public collection programme for funnel-web spiders. The public are asked to catch the deadliest spider in the world (capable of killing a child in 15 minutes, and has fangs that can pierce toenails) and take them to designated points. They are milked for the anti-venom programme.
m1n4M TIL in November 2022 Edwin Castro of California won a world-record $2.05b in the state’s Mega Millions, the largest ever for a national lottery. The ticket cost $2.
OoyrR TIL that jumping spiders can not only see the moon, but also enjoy chasing laser pointers.