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TIL Sharks have two penises named "claspers". When inserted into the female they open like an umbrella and its calcified protrusions "hook" the female. Only one is used during copulation.

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Lk4lV TIL of Eugène-François Vidocq, a formal criminal who founded the first Private Detective agency in 1833. He mostly hired ex-convicts. His innovations include taking a plaster cast of a shoe print and introducing undercover work. He claims to have never informed on someone who stole for real need.
7rjPr TIL after executing the royal Romanov family the Cheka gathered up distant relatives and threw them down the same mine shaft they put the royal family. Many people didn't die so they used grenades to finish them off. When that didn't work they put brushwood down the shaft and lit it on fire.
16lG4 TIL that Nike's slogan, Just Do It, actually originated from Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
7rJgZ TIL Paul McCartney managed to make an appearance on Pink Floyds' album Dark Side of the Moon. At the end of track “Eclipse”, a passage from an orchestral version of the Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” can be heard; the song was playing in the background at the Abbey Road studio during this recording!
e9pJ TIL that purple as a color is similar to violet, but violet is a spectral color with its own wavelength on the visible spectrum of light whereas purple is a composite color, made by combining red and blue.