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TIL: Ducks have ballistic penises and corkscrew vaginas

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4XOaX TIL of the Floppotron, a "robot orchestra" made from obsolete drives and scanners whose stepper motors are run at different speeds to produce musical tones.
x6b5b TIL That the functional sleeve buttons on suit jackets nowadays trace their origins back to military surgeons as they would unbutton their sleeves to perform surgery to avoid staining their sleeves when attending to patients. Hence the apt term “Surgeon Cuffs”.
yQr4p TIL British Rail applied for and were granted a patent to a Flying Saucer in the 1970's.
ELPX TIL that Duncan Jones, the director of Moon, Source Code and the Warcraft movie, is the son of the late David Bowie
d8pYr TIL a Marine sniper unit in Iraq became huge fans of Gilmore Girls. Near Christmas in 2005 one of them wrote to the show's creator about the lack of male clothing options in the show's gift store. Weeks later they received five boxes of Gilmore Girls jackets.