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TIL all snails are hermaphrodites. No wonder they’re never in a rush...

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Z8Bmv TIL all female mammals have a clitoris
d0xK TIL Frank Hayes was a jockey who, in 1923, suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park in New York. His horse finished and won the race with his lifeless body still atop, making him the first, and thus far, only, jockey to win a race after death
KO8m4 TIL that Stanley Kubrick considered 1992's comedy "White Men Can't Jump" to be one of his favorite movies.
dJZ9 TIL after escaping from slavery, an illiterate Harriet Tubman was spotted by a former master on a train. She decided to pick up a nearby newspaper and pretended to read it. The master ignored the black woman reading because he knew Tubman couldn’t read.
GYQkg TIL A Spider-Man script was wrote by James Cameron in the early 90’s, had the film gone into production, it would have stared Leonardo Dicaprio as Peter Parker, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Doctor Octopus, elements of the script were used in later movies.