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TIL the shape of the penis may have evolved to help men remove the semen of love rivals during sex.

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9Yvm TIL that Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild) could have saved his own life if he had known about the hand-operated tram that crossed the otherwise impassable river.
8amkV TIL that in 1972 Larry Hagman made a sequel to "The Blob" and in 1982 the movie was re-issued with the tagline "The film that J.R. shot!".
gM7J7 TIL astronomer Galileo Galilei thought Saturn’s rings were arms
b9DgZ TIL that the longest and most expensive criminal case in American history, a 15 year investigation of 321 counts of child abuse, led to no convictions and was likely "simply invented" and the result of mass hysteria.
xVodB TIL in the 1930s the Soviet Union attempted to domesticate wild moose. They believed moose might fare better in deep snow than horse cavalry so they began a breeding program. Though they never became cavalry animals, one of the breeding facilities, Kostroma Moose Farm, is still up and running.