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TIL: Banana slugs intertwine when they have sex

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WkRB4 TIL the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (dit-dit-dit-dah) is morse code for the letter V. Representing victory, this was an acknowledged symbol of the war effort, made by Winston Churchill forming a 'V' with the first and second fingers of his raised right hand.
kg9E TIL when Nancy Reagan asked Miles Davis what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation to a White House in 1987, he responded with “Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?”
xVKjD TIL the greenland shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species (300–500 years). The species reaches sexual maturity at 150 years of age. Some of the sharks sampled by researchers had been alive for nearly 400 years and were estimated to be born between 1504 and 1744.
ne1B9 TIL Rotting potatoes give off a noxious gas that can knock a person unconscious & even cause death.
69vEQ TIL the lost vans in Cars (2006) are a reference to the Death Valley Germans