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TIL that one of the symptoms of a Brazilian Wandering spider's bite is an incredibly painful erection that lasts for hours

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KOn4Q TIL In Kaziranga, a national park in north-eastern India rangers can shoot and kill poachers to protect the Indian one-horned rhinoceros with legal immunity, reducing rhino poaching.
6JRw TIL A Whales ears “float” inside its head and allow it to figure out where sounds are coming from underwater.
x6Kw7 TIL that Windows NT immobilized an entire US Navy cruiser because of a buffer overflow error
nEvY TIL that humans have explored 5%-7% of the ocean floor and less than 1% of the ocean itself. Oceans cover 70% of the earth’s surface: over 60% of the planet has never been seen by humans.
x65vo TIL in 1958 a nighttime training exercise resulted in a mid-air collision between an F-86 Sabre and a B-47 Startojet. To save the aircraft, the B-47 crew ditched their nuclear payload to save weight. The undetonated weapon is believed to have sunk near Tybee Island and remains unrecovered today.