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TIL Blue whales have the largest penises on Earth. An erect blue whale penis is 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter and ten feet in length.

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wLAdY TIL of Bear, a "koala detection dog". Wearing special boots to protect his paws from scorched ground, Bear sniffs out koala survivors of Australian bushfires. His previous owners couldn't handle him as he chewed furniture & walls out of boredom, but his need to work made him an ideal detection dog.
0wdO1 TIL That 7% of all American adults (which equates to around 16 million people) believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows
agG0 TIL that in 2010 3 burglars who thought they had found a stash of cocaine ended up snorting the ashes of a man and his two great danes
dPO8 TIL in 1986 a Kansas sheriff rented a camera and VCR from his local video store, filming a 90 minute sex tape with his wife. Upon returning the equipment, he inadvertently left the tape inside the VCR. Soon enough, his whole town had watched and passed around copies of “The Sheriff Rides Again”
BgJGK TIL of needlefish which live in both salty and fresh water and are known to leap onto boats, stabbing people with their long, pointy beak, causing serious injuries and even fatalities.