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TIL snails and slugs shoot arrow-like "love darts" during mating, often impaling each other.

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LQx40 TIL that if a woman with a negative blood type is pregnant with a baby with a positive blood type, and it's the mother's second or subsequent pregnancy. Her body will develop antibodies that will fight the baby as if it were an infection.
Zpl9o TIL the video game 'GoldenEye 007' was banned in Germany for 23 years (1997-2021) listed as "Media Harmful to Young Persons."
ZlDG TIL Jan 1st 1953 a woman changed her name to Peace Pilgrim “to remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace”. She’d walk until given shelter, fast until given food, without asking, it was given. She died in a car crash in July 1981 from a lift to a speaking engagement
gMoeX TIL that matches weren't invented until 1826. As John Walker stirred a pot of chemicals, a lump formed on the end of the mixing stick. He tried scraping the dried chemicals off, igniting the stick and accidentally inventing matches.
QJXgL TIL 'Radium girls' were unknowingly killing themselves by applying radium-based luminous paint on clock dials from brushes they'd put in their mouths