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TIL that Arches National Park in Utah has a rock column known as The Phallus

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XEPr8 TIL that the megalodon shark was NOT outcompeted by predatory cetaceans
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5VwVP TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was given his name because, during his mother's pregnancy, she was observing a Leonardo da Vinci painting in an Italian museum when DiCaprio first kicked.
Zaea TIL a jail in Brazil allows its inmates to pedal exercise bikes to power lights in a nearby town in exchange for reduced sentences
nWvMo TIL during sling load operations with helicopters, a dangerous amount of static can build up on the airframe so one of the loaders has to use a discharge wand hooked to a grounding stake or they will receive a fatal electric shock.