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TIL: Blowing into a vagina can cause an air embolism, resulting in a heart attack, stroke or trouble breathing. Luckily this is rare.

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BJyd TIL that when 4 Soviet diplomats were kidnapped by Hezbollah & one of them was killed, KGB in turn kidnapped a family member of a Hezbollah leader & sent his castrated remains to them. The remaining diplomats were released unharmed.
GYx8E Today I learned that scientists gave dolphins lsd as an attempt to communicate with them
05YL TIL that Cuba has one of the world’s highest literacy rates
kJlVE TIL the largest spider ever recorded was a goliath bird-eating spider measured at a leg span of 11 inches (about the size of a dinner plate) in 1965
rNwBo TIL that in 2003, director David O. Russell put Christopher Nolan in a headlock after learning that Jude Law, who he wanted to cast, had decided to work with Nolan instead.