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TIL about a glitch in World of Warcraft that helped real world epidemiologists study how people react during the outbreak of a disease.

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XQKr TIL the average male has 5 erections per night (while sleeping) and they last anywhere from 20-30 minutes.
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LkNom TIL that there is a Magic: The Gathering card called "Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental"
d8YOd TIL that a 1950s and 60s Greenwich Village street poet named Big Brown had an enormous influence on Kerouac and the Beats, Bob Dylan, and proto-Hip Hop with Rudy Ray Moore (Dolemite) and The Last Poets. Dylan referred to his poems as "the best poetry I ever heard".
nejkW TIL one of the most brutal prisons in the US was Angola, Louisiana, which was run like a plantation. In the 1930s, hardened prisoners broke down upon learning of their sentence there. At one point, 10% of Angola prisoners were stabbed.