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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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Pyme TIL that Qantas Airways’s name was originally an acronym for “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services”
jnj TIL that as a boy, Michael Bay attached some firecrackers to a toy train and filmed the ensuing fiery disaster with his mother’s 8mm camera.
5rk9 TIL that that the X-Mansion from the X-men film series was the same mansion set used in Adam Sandler’s Billy Madison.
GEmQ TIL pornography is legal in the US even though prostitution is not, because it is illegal to pay one explicitly for sex, but the participants in a film/photo are paid to act and are protected under the first amendment to take part in sexual acts as part of the act.
EgQm0 TIL in World War II several U.S railroad companies sponsored military “railway battalions” to help with the war effort. Company bosses became military officers and 1000’s of American railroad employees joined the effort throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.