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TIL that male humans suffering through the symptomatic stage of rabies can sometimes uncontrollably ejaculate up to 30 times a day. But then you die.

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X0Ej6 TIL that after the tragic suicide of socialite Dorothy Hale, Frida Kahlo was commissioned by Hale's friend, Clare Booth Luce, to paint a likeness of Hale in remembrance. Instead of a beautiful portrait, however, Kahlo painted a sequence of Hale leaping to her death from her 16th story apartment.
QJV06 TIL: Out of 24 SS Death Squad leaders, prosecuted in 1947 for the direct killings of more than 1m people, 9 were jurists, 1 university professor, 1 opera singer, 1 expert in art history, 1 architect, 1 economist, 2 teachers, 1 priest, 1 dentist
4XbdX TIL about the time, when a lawyers pants spontaneously combusted in court while defending his client in an arson case
dKK TIL: Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, flew 300 combat missions over Europe in WWII, finishing his career as a Brigadier General
lopY1 TIL of Project Valkyrie: a theorized lightweight interstellar spacecraft that could attain 92% lightspeed. Components are tethered, with the crew 10 km away from the antimatter engine. A system would spray liquid droplets in front of the craft to shield against interstellar dust particles.