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TIL that Yelp manipulates user reviews to give favorable ratings to businesses that pay them ad fees, and to “punish” businesses that don’t.

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Ypey7 TIL moths vibrate their genitals to avoid bats. This action produces ultrasound that jams bats’ built-in sonar, rendering the moths temporarily “invisible”.
D1noJ TIL Xenophanes (c. 570 – c. 475 BC) was the first person known to have used fossils as evidence for a theory of the history of the Earth. Having discovered fossils of marine life on a mountain he posited they were once underwater.
y0wJ TIL Seinfeld theme song was redone for each episode in order to match the pacing of Jerry Seinfeld’s monologue in the beginning.
ogXR TIL 100 years ago yesterday, an African man killed himself after being held in a Bronx zoo as a “missing link”.
yQvW8 TIL a $40M lottery winner in China wore a monkey costume to hide his identity. Apparently this has become a trend for many lottery winners in China from ninjas to Baymax from Big Hero 6.