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TIL that male dolphins have been known to masturbate by wrapping live eels around their penises

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rb6W TIL the Earth’s mantle is so extremely viscous that it takes at least 50 million years to complete a convection circuit. The mantle has only moved an average of 18 feet since the pyramids were built
7rdnM TIL about “spreading depolarization”, a scientific phenomena where the human brain continues to emit brain waves after the heart stops, for several minutes even. When Anne Boleyn was beheaded her detached head reportedly tried to talk.
9DZp TIL a man tried to shoot an armadillo but the bullet ricocheted off the shell and hit his mother in law
JYd5B TIL that McDonalds has a Gold Card that entitles the holder to free, unlimited food. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have one, as does Charles Ramsey, who ditched his half-eaten Big Mac to help rescue three kidnapped women.
6aEJ TIL that a first class ticket on the Titanic cost $4,350 in 1912 which would be approximately $106,200 per person in today’s dollars