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TIL that some spiders engage in oral sex

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1alQr TIL that mammoths were originally thought to burrow like moles, since their remains were always found underground
9wZxM TIL that early European railroads locked passengers in train cars. Doing so ended in France after the Versailles rail accident of 1842 killed up to 200 people, who could not escape when a derailment and crash caused a fire.
LQDrm TIL about the fall of Alan Magee. A B-17 ball turret gunner in World War II, Magee fell more than 20,000 feet without a parachute when his plane was destroyed by flak. He smashed through the roof of a French railroad station, survived, and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp.
JYWO4 TIL The Far Side's cartoonist, Gary Larson, has three species of of insects, one a chewing louse, named after him to thank him for the celebration of science in the comic.
QJWwL TIL that the MTV show Celebrity Deathmatch once planned to have a showdown between Captain Kirk vs. Captain Piccard with William Shatner even blessing the episode. Paramount was unhappy and pulled the plug because they didn’t want MTV “F***ing with their billion dollar franchise”.