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TIL There is a diving beetle named after Stephen Colbert because, according to the naming scientist, "Stephen shamelessly asked the science community to name something cooler than a spider to honor him."

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4XYR TIL 1 out of 2 males, and 1 out of 3 females will get cancer in their lifetime.
rRnAM TIL of heat death, where the universe will eventually turn into a cold void with no interactions between particles, its ultimate death
XEOmD TIL that the SAW franchise has saved over 360,000 lives. With the exception of the first & the 2009 movie, people could donate blood in exchange for free movies ticket. As of September 2017, 120,000 pints (57,000 L) of blood had been donated.
1A9V TIL That dinosaur erotica exists (with actual titles like “Ravished By The Triceratops”) and is apparently pretty profitable
lo5nB TIL that in 2004 a British man auctioned and sold off literally all his possessions to fly out to Vegas and bet it all on one spin of roulette.