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TIL the mushroom (Phallus indusiatus) can make a woman orgasm spontaneously by smelling it

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VBdgB TIL that United Flight 175, the 2nd plane to crash into the WTC on 9/11, rapidly descended at an “unheard of” 5,000 ft/min during its final 5 minutes. Flying at 590 mph, the aircraft also banked sharply just before impact, as it might’ve otherwise just clipped the South Tower or missed it entirely.
W069 TIL the director and animator of Ed, Edd, and Eddie was shot 8 times by police officers while unarmed. It was caught on video.
gME9L TIL of Varina Davis, first lady of the Confederacy. Criticized for her olive skin tone and high level of literacy, she later became a newspaper columnist, was friends with Julia Grant (widow of Ulysses S. Grant) and declared in an article in 1901 that "the right side won the civil war".
dPDd TIL of the Aztec Death Whistle. It is a skull shaped wood whistle, that sounds like someone screaming. It was used to intimidate their enemies during war.
Ooble TIL Harland Williams, the pee drinking trooper from Dumb and Dumber, created Puppy Dog Pals, a Disney cartoon