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TIL The thirteenth-century friar, Albert's Magnus, publicized eating roasted wolf penis as the ultimate cure for Erectile Dysfunction.

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OlPR TIL that if you travel at 99% the speed of light away from the sun, the light from the sun would still pass by you at the speed of light relative to you.
x6gpB TIL from 1910s to 40s Australia had ban on movies about bushrangers, armed robbers and outlaws of bush. The ban on popular genre resulted decline of Australian film industry.
OQ6L TIL In the 19th century naturalist John James Audubon observed a flock of passenger pigeons over Minnesota that took three days to pass his observation point and, in doing so it totally blocked out the sun so that the entire area lived in a bird-created total eclipse.
pYRAe TIL: The Dalaketnon are the Filipino folklore equivalent of elves. They live in trees, have pointy ears, are attractive, tall, but the males are light skinned while the females are dark skinned. However, they can enslave humans by feeding them black rice and they have telekinetic powers.
VB4Z0 TIL that there is a basketball court above the U.S. Supreme Court, aptly nicknamed 'The Highest Court in the Land.'