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TIL Viagra dissolved in water can make cut flowers stand up straight for up to a week beyond their natural lifespan.

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p88n8 TIL female hyenas have “pseudo penises” that can have erections. They also use it to urinate, have sex, and give birth.
ZoMD TIL of a festival in Spain, “Entroido”, where Medieval tax collectors run in the streets with burning hay as people throw dirt at them. The town gathers in the center to throw flour and ants at each other, followed by a man w/ a cows head used to lifts women’s skirts, among other things
5V7WD TIL There are some state-funded programs that allow people to adopt dogs that failed government training for being too friendly or for some other reasons
ADa1B TIL that John Cleese was expelled from Clifton College as a young boy after painting footsteps on the ground to suggest that the school's statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had gotten down from its plinth and gone to the toilet
epDeL TIL of a calculator, by The Columbia Journalism Review, which works out your own newsworthiness if you were to go missing. It ranks from 0 (no shit given) to 128 (non-stop news coverage).