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TIL a scorpion’s anus is at the end of its tail, not on its butt

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bye4 TIL that Fritz Moen, who was partly paralysed was wrongfully convicted of two rapes and murders. One victim had been chased across a field, knocked down and tied up with her own clothes, which he was physically incapable of doing. He served a total of 18 years in prison, he was acquitted in 2004.
kO5pd TIL a Air New Zealand sightseeing flight to Antarctica was supposed to have Sir Edmund Hillary who became one of the first to climb Mount Everest. Subsequently the flight got caught in a white out and crashed in to Mt. Erebus killing all of the passengers.
E1Nb7 TIL the highest grossing basketball movie of all time is Space Jam
J7w1 TIL that soldiers erroneously believed that the Ace in a pack of Bicycle playing cards was a symbol of death to the Viet Cong army and would scatter them around the jungle.
wyX8 TIL that the first person to win $1M on the US version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire used only one of his lifelines—he phoned his dad on the final question to let him know he knew the answer.