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TIL: Ducks have ballistic penises and corkscrew vaginas

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8eaZ TIL that from 1936-1964 there was a travel guide for African Americans that listed integrated or black-friendly establishments.
DQDrP TIL of Benjaman Kyle, an amnesiac man discovered in 2004 who had no memories of his life and could not even recall his name. It was not until 2015 that his identity was discovered through DNA testing, and there is still a twenty-year gap in his life history with no known records.
gMD97 TIL there’s only one active pitcher (Bartolo Colon) in the top 1000 all time for complete games, and he’s in the 997th spot.
bmE7 TIL That clownfish are ‘sequential hermaphrodites’, meaning that if Finding Nemo were more accurate, Nemo’s father would’ve turned into his mother after the real mother died, Nemo would’ve become the new reproducing male, “and they would raise little incestuous Nemos together.”
XQVj TIL during the beginning of the 19th century, Ireland had almost half the population of Great Britain with ~5 million to it’s 10.5 million. Today at 6.3 million and 61 million it is little more than 1/10th.