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TIL that one of an Octopus’s right arms serves as its penis and is called a hectocotylus.

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gM4BA TIL about the Turnspit dog, which was bred specifically to run on a wheel that turns meat over a fire. They are now extinct
Ov4g TIL in 1940 two Royal Australian Air Force training airplanes collided in mid-air, becoming locked together. As the aircraft were traveling in the same direction, they became an impromptu biplane and we’re landed safely by the pilot of the upper plane. There were no deaths.
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