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TIL male octopuses evolved to have detachable penises due to cannibalistic female mating practices

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16Rrd TIL Time magazine was the first to introduce the name "World War II"
Q9ra TIL Bruce Lee left Hong Kong for Seattle in 1958 with nothing but $100 in his pocket. He gave cha cha lessons to first-class passengers to earn extra money during the ship ride to US.
Db7e TIL the scientist, Clair Patterson, who helped develop the atomic bomb, also saved humanity by stopping the use of Leaded Gasoline.
PYNNg TIL We broke the sound barrier before a man summited Mt. Everest. That's a speed exceeding 662 mph, at an altitude of 43,000 feet, in a ROCKET PLANE, four years before a man could climb to 29,029 feet, with the help of a Nepalese sherpa on his 39th birthday.
LloP TIL the word “niggardly” is an adjective meaning “stingy” or “miserly,” and is completely unrelated to the racial slur “nigger” despite their phonetic similarity.