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TIL banana slugs bite off each other's penises after sex

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rxDw TIL that in 1964 civil rights activists spent the summer in Mississippi registering black voters. The resulting terror campaign against the activists included 35 shootings, 80 beatings, 30 bombings, and 35 church burnings. Several died. Over 1000 people were arrested.
mx1XE TIL 12% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah's wife, from the Bible.
N7VD6 TIL of the Murray Gell-Man Amnesia Effect, i.e., we give newspapers the benefit of the doubt even after we catch them being inaccurate on subjects we know about. (Term was coined by Michael Crichton in "Why Speculate?")
QvpM TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cold, hard, cash were flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.
p8lPG TIL about Brooke Greenberg, a girl who never aged. She died at the age of 20 still looking like a toddler.