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TIL that When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and he dies.

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loPM5 TIL that one of the reasons the Cottingley Fairies photos weren't revealed as fake for so long (over 60 years) was because the girls who took them didn't want to make a fool out of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had believed they were real and wrote about the fairies as a psychic phenomenon
R50Aj TIL in 1962 researchers from the University of Oklahoma injected 297 mg of LSD, which is nearly three thousand times the human recreational dose, into "Tusko", an Indian elephant at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Within five minutes he collapsed and died one hour and forty minutes later.
E1D40 TIL that Best Buy removed the fighting video game “Primal Rage” from its shelves after an Arizona woman complained that her 11-year-old son had faithfully portrayed one of the game’s gorilla-like character’s “golden shower/urination” fatality move.
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