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TIL it’s more likely you will survive a plane crash or win the lottery than click a banner ad.

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kJamm TIL McDonald’s Chicken Nuggets always come in one of four shapes, the “boot,” the “bell,” the “ball,” and the “bone” (or “bow tie”)
4LBX TIL that you can check out a chainsaw from Oakland, CA Public Library’s “tool lending library” which maintains a collection of 3500 tools. They also have videos, workshops, and DIY manuals.
9Y0Qr TIL that when a jury convicted Jane Wenham of witchcraft in 1712, due to witnesses accusing her of flying on a broomstick and bewitching servants, the sceptical judge refused to execute her and instead sought a royal pardon, noting that there was “no law against flying.”
KYR96 TIL: Male echidnas have a four-headed penis — during mating, the heads on one side "shut down" and do not grow in size, while the other two are used to release semen. Each time it copulates, it alternates heads in sets of two. Prior to 2007, no one had ever seen an echidna ejaculate.
WkyvB TIL there was a lunar eclipse during the Siege of Constantinople in May 1453