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TIL sun exposure may cause skin cancer, but it also lowers overall mortality rates, including from cancer

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RJg8 TIL that vampire bats will die if they can’t find blood for two nights in a row. Luckily, generous well-fed bats will often regurgitate blood to share with others, in exchange for grooming. This has been noted by many naturalists as an example of reciprocal altruism in nature.
grQXy TIL that a drug used to treat rare genetic disorders in humans can also kill malaria mosquitoes simply by contact, disrupting their metabolism after a blood meal, even in insecticide-resistant strains
j6egN TIL Hall of Fame QB Bret Favre almost died in a car accident at age 22, less than a mile from his destination. His car flipped three times, was freed after his brother smashed the windows with a golf club, and later had 30in of his small intestines removed by doctors.
5Yel9 TIL Mike Myers' 2008 film "The Love Guru" was so badly received by critics he hasn't had an on-camera starring role in a film since. One critic, in his review, predicted it would be "career-killing" for Myers and "one of the worst films of at least the past several years."
KY8nB TIL that human babies release hexadecanal, from their heads, which lowers aggression in males but increases aggression in females. This lowers male driven infanticide while making females/mothers more protective of their offspring.