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TIL that there is a type of octopus, an argonaut, where the male fills its sex organ with sperm, then rips it off and presents it to a female.

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7rRNM TIL Toy Story had many rejected titles when looking for an official one, some of these including "Toyz in the Hood" and "The Cowboy & The Spaceman", in the end however they went with Toy Story which was originally just a temporary placeholder name during the creation of the project.
pYGMZ TIL that in 2010 Tennessee firefighters watched a family's home burn to the ground because they hadn't paid a 75$ firefighting subscription fee
0w5n1 TIL that of the 1 sexvigintillion (10 followed by 81 zeros) of combinations of digits in a nine by nine grid only 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000066 % are possible sudoku solutions yet there are so many that no randomly generated sudoku will appear twice
Eg6wd TIL Jack Parsons, a pioneer rocket engineer and inventor of the rocket engines later used in the apollo program was also a passionate occultist. One of his rituals, aimed to summon a sex goddess involved Parsons jerking off to magical tablets while listening to a violin concerto
6ElQ TIL in 1919 a tank containing 2,300,000 gallons of molasses used to sweeten drinks burst during a heat wave, flooding the streets of Boston with molasses traveling 35 MPH, killing 21 and injuring 150. Take that Snapple Popsicle!