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TIL One cannot maintain an erection in space.

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78LWM TIL that Schlitz who made the beer that made Milwaukee famous not only took over the brewery from August Krug when he died, but also married his widow!
OGPmY TIL the political satire called "El Apóstol"(1917) consisted of 58,000 drawings and lasted 70 minutes! Historians consider it the world's first animated feature film. But a fire in 1926 destroyed the film studio, including El Apóstol. It is now considered a lost film.
OnyL TIL a farmer in China grows Buddha shaped pears.
1yNr TIL that Tarantino has never fully watched “Natural Born Killers”, despite receiving story credit for the film. He walked out before it ended, commenting: “I just hated that whole Rodney Dangerfield sequence so much. It was so unfunny, so disgusting.”
gMBW9 TIL there is an elite private prep school in NYC called the Horace Mann school, named after the 19th Century American educational reformer Horace Mann, who advocated for quality public education. Tuition is more than $52,000/year