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TIL the song "Lesbian Seagull" from Beavis & Butt-Head Do America was not written for the film as a comedy bit, but already existed as a real song written in 1979 in response to a scientific study of long-term monogamous lesbian behavior observed in seagulls on Santa Barbara Island.

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a89O9 TIL that the co-founder of the Hospital Corporation of America, Jack C. Massey, also owned KFC and additionally owned one of the largest franchises of Wendy’s.
GYJDG TIL Charles Darwin never used the phrase “survival of the fittest” and actually argued against it.
8aYB8 TIL: In 2006, the FBI came up with a terror plot involving "full scale ground war" taking out the Sears Tower. The 7 convicted never had any contact with Al Qaeda, never acquired weapons, explosives or formed actual plans & whole plot was thought up by the FBI informant. From 7-13 years prison.
5YKLD TIL that Willie Mays is the only player in MLB history to have at least one career home run in every inning from 1-16
7aeZ TIL there is a vampire-like disease that can cause your nails to grow long and tear off, your teeth to sharpen like fangs and your skin–in some cases–to turn pale and easily bruise and scab in the sunlight.