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TIL male argonauts develop a special arm for copulation in a pouch located under their eye and upon finding a mate they detach that arm and place it on the female. Their detached arm then crawls, with a life of its own, into her mantle for fertilization. Researchers found 38 arms inside one female.

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4XNpb TIL In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho if a police officer suspects that the occupants of a vehicle are engaging in sex, he must either honk, or flash his lights and wait for three minutes before approaching the car.
Y7gPv TIL about "Mad" Jack Churchill, the man who fought in World War 2 with a bow and a sword. He later became a passionate surfer, and he was the first man to ride a tidal bore, which he did on a surfboard that he designed and built
6dMw TIL that in 1908 the Russian team turned up 12 days late to the Olympics because they had yet to start using the Gregorian calendar.
QNe9p TIL of Beatrice Muller, a New Jersey widow who became a permanet resident of the Cunard ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. When her husband retired the pair went on the ship's world cruise every year until he died on board in 1999. From 2000 she lived permanently on the ship until it was retired in 2008
oBmLL TIL Erotomania is a delusional disorder wherein a person experiences delusions of another person being infatuated with them. It's most often seen in female patients that are shy, dependent and sexually inexperienced. The object of the delusion is typically a male who is 'unattainable'.