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

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dLLZ TIL: Tesla Motors wanted to name their 2017 car the “Model E”, so they could spell “ SEX” with their three car models. Ford Motors threatened legal action, so they changed it to “Model 3”, to spell “ S3X”.
6EPW7 TIL of Salty and Roselle, two separate guide dogs who were in the World Trade Centre during 9/11. They were on the 71st and 78th floor of Tower 1 respectively. They each led their owners safely out of the burning tower amidst the chaos, and both owners and dogs survived.
l7lZK TIL Eurypterids, an order of arthropods completely wiped out by the world's biggest mass extinction, were scorpion-like giants that could reach almost ten feet in length.
eA4b TIL more than half of brits think Sherlock Holmes was a real person.
b9eGj TIL that a group of bears is called a "sleuth of bears". Also: a sounder of boars, clowder of cats, mob of cattle, coalition of cheetahs, bask of crocodiles, pod of dolphins, bed of eels, cast of falcons, business of flies, band of gorillas, boil of hawks, kindle of kittens, barrel of monkeys