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TIL - People with sickle cell can be more prone to have prolonged erections.

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X0AKR TIL that Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month.
AWMx TIL that the probability of human extinction by Molecular nanotechnology weapons or Superintelligent AI before year 2100 has been put at 5%.
N7gRN TIL the ampersand was originally the 27th letter of the English alphabet. The alphabet would end in "X, Y, Z, and per se (meaning by itself) and". The phrase became slurred until the symbol was simply known as ampersand (and per se and).
woYr8 TIL about Lord Sedley, a prominent member of Charles II court, who was fined for getting naked and performing obscenities on a balcony in 1663, only to pay his fine with the kings money.
vPRaB TIL that coconut crabs and some other hermit crabs have Branchiostegal lungs (considered to be a developmental stage between gills and lungs) besides gills and will drown if submerged for too long. They also have the ability to smell things in the air.