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TIL Skrillex's debut album Scary Monster and Nice Sprites can prevent mosquito bites, according to a 2019 study.

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R7oZ4 TIL that in Japanese Folklore, the Konaki-Jiji has the body of a baby with the head of an old man. It lies on the side of the road crying, waiting for a kind-hearted traveler to pick it up. Once the Konaki-Jiji is picked up, it turns into a heavy stone that crushes the victim to death.
v1Ko8 TIL that Astroturf became the common name for Artificial turf after it gained popularity as an alternative to grass in the newly constructed Astrodome in the 1960s.
VBjZB TIL George Costanza’s fictional company, Vandelay Industries, became a reality in Brooklyn, when a con man named Thomas Sfraga was just sentenced to 45 months in prison for fraud for running a Ponzi scheme
N7XXb TIL when The Human Centipede was released, TV3 news in New Zealand interviewed a doctor if the human centipede was medically possible.
4X0Ob TIL: Much (but not all) of Weird Al Yankovic's music is satire, rather than parody. Thus it is not protected by the Fair Use Doctrine.