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TIL that Daddy Long Legs should be notable not for their dangerous venom (an urban legend) but for having evolved what is likely the world's first penis. [Details in comments]

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0wrmL TIL id Software made a prototype PC port of Super Mario 3 and showed it to Nintendo, who declined permission to fully develop it, leading to them making Commander Keen, which then lead to them being able to publish Wolfenstein 3D, and finally lead them to creating DooM.
J1vOQ TIL that Gwenyth Paltrow once endorsed the practice of steam cleaning your vagina where “you sit on what is essentially a mini throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus”. There has been no evidence that steam cleaning has any benefits.
5DMr TIL African American soldiers in World War I served under the French military because white American soldiers refused to perform with them. Many African Americans moved to France after the war because they were treated better in that country.
BDWW TIL of Cincinnati Freedom, a cow that jumped a 6 foot fence at a slaughterhouse in Cincinnati, only to evade police officers for 11 days, making national news headlines, and eventually living out the rest of its life in NY.
Lkgkm TIL camouflage does not work on color-blind people and for this reason some were picked as snipers