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TIL Female Bark lice have spined penises they use to mate with unwilling partners for up to 70 hours

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4Xbyb TIL wallets weren't used for carrying money and identification like they are now. They carried things like dried meats and "things to be unseen". It was also considered uncivilized to carry your wallet in your pocket up until the 20th century.
wooN7 TIL that if a juror believes the law is unjust, they have to right to find a defendant "Not Guilty" regardless of the evidence.
1axm8 TIL that the hit Paul Anka song My Way recorded by Frank Sinatra '69 and later Elvis Presley '73 was copied note for note from a French song Comme d'habitude(As Usual) by Claude François '67 with the lyrics completely changed from the original love song.
AR5g TIL In 1915 A millionaire named Cecil Chubb bought his wife Stonehenge. She didn’t like it, so in 1918 he gave it to the nation
rR87d TIL At the London Film Festival showing of Sympathy for the Devil in 1968, director Jean-Luc Godard punched his producer in the face over changes to the film's ending. He showed his original cut under a bridge for free after the screening