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TIL of "Penis Fencing", where two hermaphroditic flatworms battle each other with their dagger-like penises to determine which one will stab the other and inject them with their sperm

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E1JG7 TIL that SNL’s Vanessa Bayer was so sick as a child that she and her family got sent to Hawaii by the Make-A-Wish Foundation
R7vOl TIL - Joerg Buttgereit (director of Nekromantik) created concept and characters for a lost XBox\PS2 game
1XW7 TIL During the making of “Rocky”, Sylvester Stallone asked Earnie Shavers (widely regarded as the hardest puncher in boxing) to punch him for real. After 1 punch, Stallone vomited.
RkN1 TIL There is a German township that is entirely surrounded by Switzerland
R7aY1 TIL of No Kum-Sok, a North Korean pilot who defected to South Korea by flying his MiG-15 near-supersonic across the border. After nearly crashing into an F-86 while landing, he taxied, parked his plane, exited and began tearing a picture of Kim Il-Sung.