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TIL the KVLY-TV antenna in North Dakota was the tallest structure in the world from 1963-1974, and again from 1991-2008

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gMWmy TIL that male funnel spiders use pheromones to knock females unconscious before mating.
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R55L4 TIL Pirate Richard Worley was the captain of the New York’s Revenge during the Golden Age of Piracy. After he captured his second ship, he named it the New York Revenge’s Revenge.
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yODX TIL in a scene in the sitcom Three’s Company, John Ritter’s scrotum falls out of his shorts. Nickelodeon deleted the scene for reruns. In response, Ritter said: “I’ve requested that (Nickelodeon) air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t.”