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TIL When a male honey bee orgasms, it’s testicles explode and it dies shortly after.

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4XrA6 TIL Newton Minow, then FCC chairman, called television a "vast wasteland" in 1961. In his "honor", Sherwood Schwartz named the ship on Gilligan's Island after him in 1964. Minow is still alive at 94.
78VZX TIL a lactating Virgin Mary supposedly reanimated and shot her milk across a room and into a man's mouth or eyes. There are multiple holy paintings of that "miracle."
X0rGj TIL that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands were in a bloodless war for 335 years, which officially ended in 1986
LQoAV TIL Kim Jong-il's famous five hole-in-one golf record turns out to be a simple journalistic mistake—reporters incorrectly interpreted his scorecard which had been filled out in shorthand by the scorekeeper, and ended up reporting his score wrong.
YpAB7 TIL that ONLY Air Force planes are called Air Force One when carrying the president. "Marine One" and "Navy One" are used for presidential flights on aircraft by those branches, and there has been one "Executive One" flight on a civilian aircraft.