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TIL the phrase “balls to the wall” is the pilot’s equivalent to “pedal to the metal” and is not a reference to male anatomy

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JY6k TIL 3 suicide bombers prematurely exploded because the bombs were set on daylight savings time.
eE4E TIL Piss from the Maned wolf smells like marijuana and one day had police searching for pot smokers at a Dutch zoo. The officers were really just smelling wolf piss.
nWaXr TIL - the deepest underwater rescue occurred in 1973. Roger Mallison and Roger Chapman were trapped in their submersible on the seabed at 480m for 76 hours.
D16pP TIL Riding shotgun was a Wild West expression used for the person who rides next to the driver of a stagecoach for protection against bandits.
KONQG TIL about Tim Friede, who has endured 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom, in an attempt to immunise himself against snakebites and then offer scientists his blood to make a universal antivenom.