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TIL a man suffered a 3 month erection after getting his penis tattooed.

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KOK9J TIL about The tragedy of the commons- an economic problem in which every individual has an incentive to consume a resource at the expense of every other individual with no way to exclude anyone from consuming resulting in overconsumption and ultimately depletion of the resource.
7bvp TIL a key aerospace scientist in the U.S. named Qian Xue Shen, was forced to return to China during the Red Scare, where he founded the Chinese space and missile programs.
kOj15 TIL Hooters once had their own airline from 2003-2006. They had regular flight crew and attendants and scantily clad Hooters Girls on every flight.
698gY TIL about the Doorway Effect, where the simple act of walking through a doorway (both physical and virtual) can cause us to forget what we were just doing.
p8xNO TIL that some 15,000 Nigerian children were branded as witches and most ended up abandoned and living on the streets.