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TIL that, sometimes, flies and its larvae can infest someone urethra, and this is called Urethral Myiasis

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E1MYW TIL the actor who played Crabbe in the Harry Potter series was arrested for looting a drug store with a Molotov cocktail during the 2011 London riots and spent 2 years in prison
a4oL TIL the story of Aladdin has no Arab source, was written by a Frenchman and takes places in a Chinese town and Aladdin is explicitly Chinese.
R7Zkw TIL of the Republic XF-84H, the loudest aircraft ever built. Its engine was audible from 22 miles away, and Edwards Air Force Base was worried the noise would break windows in the control tower. The airplane was not popular at Edwards, and is rumored to have caused several miscarriages.
jN0eX TIL it used to be common for woman in the US to wear extremely long metal hatpins but in 1910 hatpins longer than 9 inches were banned because woman were using them for self-defence and/or accidentally killing people with them.
YmeB TIL that Eve (meaning “life” in Hebrew) is made of Adam’s rib, because in Sumerian language word “nin” is a pun, meaning both “life” and “rib”. Whole story is based on Sumerian myth of Enki and Ninti living in Dilmun (Sumerian version of paradise), and pun was instrumental in translation.