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TIL the Orient Express Became the World’s Most Glamorous Train

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9lDD TIL - If you have sex with a woman who just had sex with a different man, the shape of your penis allows you to scoop out his semen and replace it with your own!
nV67 TIL - that when Freddy Mercury was so sick with AIDS, as he was recording “The Show Must Go On” Brian May did not think he could do it. Freddie necked some vodka, said “I can fucking do it, darling” and annihilated it in one take.
QLL9 TIL that during one of his innumerable Presidential affairs, John F. Kennedy tore a groin muscle and had to wear a stiff shoulder-to-groin brace that prevented the reflexive ducking which might have saved him from the second, fatal, assassin’s bullet. (PDF: par 3 pg 5)
O5VR TIL a young Charlie Wilson’s dog was killed by a next door neighbor who was running for city council by mixing crushed glass into the dog’s food. Charlie Wilson retaliated by driving 96 poor black voters to the polls ultimately causing his neighbor to lose the election.
eQ1D TIL that the assertion from Jurassic Park that T-Rex was unable to see anything not moving is false and a study suggests that they even had better vision than modern day hawks and eagles.