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TIL for their size, barnacles possess the longest penis of any animal (up to eight times their body length).

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X06rE Today I learned that cigarettes and gasoline were used as forms of commodity money in Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
R5WP8 TIL the man whose wife and five Sunday school students were killed during WWII by a Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon then married the older sister of two of the Sunday schoolers, went to South Vietnam for missionary work with his new family, was kidnapped by the Viet Cong, and remains missing.
og8Y TIL that two independent groups of researchers have shown that promoting random people to management is more effective than standard promotion methods like merit or seniority.
nepaP TIL, 5 exabytes of information was created between 12k BC and 2003 AD. But that rate has gone up to every two days by 2003. An exabyte is 1,024 petabytes, while a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes.
ADJXx TIL a Danish company modified a version of thale cress (plant), that changes from green to red when being near landmines, because of the nitrogen dioxide gas released from landmines. This way you can detect landmines and save lives.