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TIL Ottoman sultan Murad III was impotent. According to historians "his arrow was working but was unable to reach the target of union and pleasure." After many attempts by his mother a cure was found with one side effect: his libido increased so much by the end of his reign he had over 100 children

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78o0Z TIL Arabian American Little League (Dhahran, KSA) went to the Little League World Series 17 times in 21 attempts (1987-2007). The league is comprised of American children whose parents work in Saudi Arabia.
wowlE TIL the Washington Monument was once the tallest building in the world at 555 feet, 5 inches
o0RY TIL In woodpeckers, most of the energy from pecking that reaches the brain is heat. The reason why woodpeckers peck in short bursts is to let their brain cool off.
xVMYk TIL During the NYC blackout of 1977, the crew filming “Superman” outside the old Daily News building on 42nd Street lent their klieg lights to the editors so they could see the newspaper pages they were laying out.
OkoL TIL that in a US military exercise from 1978 in which jet fighters were pitted against helicopters, helicopters won 5 to 1.