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TIL the brain has an “automatic penis maintenance function” to force erections if unused for too long

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VQr8 TIL the next Y2K like event will happen in 2038. But the sun will swallow the earth before we have to worry about a date problem again if systems use a 64bit date value.
VMNm8 TIL within one year a single acre of maggots can produce more protein than 3,000 acres of cattle or 130 acres of soybeans. That's equal to 130,000 pounds of protein per year and greater than the per-acre protein yield of cattle (about 40 pounds), soybeans (950 pounds) or chickens (1,800 pounds)
nEQ9 TIL- That the modern handshake dates back to the 5th century BC. It originated from swordsman greeting each other with their weapon hand free, showing no sign to fight.
0wQ0j TIL that a former NHLer—Anatoli Fedotov—played in the NHL BEFORE he got drafted
b9Lj7 TIL Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer. Also so many baboons and ibises were mummified for the trade it likely drove them to extinction in Egypt.