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TIL Rabies often causes involuntary erections and hands-free orgasms, sometimes as many as 30-50 per day in the final phases before death.

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MJZB TIL that Nirvana purposely hired a bad video director, Sam Bayer, so that the music video for Smells Like Teen Spirit would turn out to be rough and ‘not corporate’ like. But the video was so well received that it gave the band, along with MTV, major corporate success.
6ERLl TIL a Ohio Morgue worker had sex with over 100 dead bodies.
b6lej TIL: Horseshoe crabs have 10 eyes scattered across their head and tail, some of which are significantly different in function from one another.
Lk0K0 TIL that in 1963, a Belgian fisherman got himself arrested on purpose to envoke a 297-year-old Royal Charter that gave fishermen from his city the right to fish in English waters. The UK never pressed charges.
6EajJ TIL a Brazilian priest strapped himself to 1000 balloons as a fundraising event for truckers. He set off into the sky and then disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. His body was recovered months later.