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TIL the male Canadian goose has a corkscrew shaped penis

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KYNA6 TIL that election silence is a thing in many countries around the world. There is a time period before the election that the media and campaigns must stop talking about the election.
VMDp4 TIL that witches are banned from flying above 150 meters in the landlocked African nation of Eswatini. Any witch caught flying their broomstick above the limit faces arrest and a hefty R500,000 fine according to the country’s civil aviation authority. There's no penalty for flying below 150 meters.
ZpoLv TIL the crash of NLM CityHopper Flight 431 on October 6, 1981, near Moerdijk, Netherlands, remains the only widely recognized case of a commercial plane being brought down by a tornado
GADQE TIL that when Mario Party 8 was released in 2007, it was banned in the UK for containing the word "spastic", which is considered an ableist slur for sufferers of cerebral palsy there.
vPXM7 TIL that 2 helicopters a week crash into power lines. 85% of wire strikes take place during the day, with pilots having an average of 4,000+ hours.