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TIL there has never been a documented case of poison candy being handed out on Halloween.

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0wK8N TIL sperm whales got their name from late 18th century commercial whalers who discovered the enormous white fluid-filled organ in the whale's head and misinterpret it for sperm fluid. This organ which is now called the spermaceti organ is actually used as a powerful echolocation equipment.
e0114 Today I learned that the CIA secretly owned a Swiss company called Crypto AG that maintained offices all over the world and sold products with secret backdoors for the US government and key allies.
mxyxR TIL that one of the attempts to find El Dorado, the mythical city of gold, involved draining a lake using a bucket chain of laborers. Over three months, the lake level fell 3 meters and only recovered about $100K worth of gold.
wLrbY TIL that the bite of a Brazilian Wandering Spider can cause a long lasting, painful erection in Humans.
wLM77 TIL there is a Lieutenant Columbo statue in Budapest.