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TIL that elephants have prehensile penises, meaning that they can use them to pick things up and perform other various tasks.

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RmY4 TIL that the largest building with completed construction plans is a 10,000m (33,000 ft) tower that would cost 16 trillion USD to construct with a 100-150 year construction time, but it can house 30 million people.
d80JE TIL There is a Japanese Historical Revisionist Movement that pushes false narrative that Japan was trying to liberate Asia from Western Powers in WWII omitting atrocities committed by Japan.
a84N TIL when a library cat named Muffin was “evicted” in Putnam Valley, NY, 2 members of the community removed the library from their wills and the library lost $80,000 in future revenue
p8GLG TIL in 1981, a train engineer in India intentionally derailed his train to avoid hitting a cow, killing 600 people.
KOwZw TIL a man in Argentina bought several toy poodles only to discover that they were actually ferrets on steroids.