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TIL Willem DaFoe was expelled from high school for making a porno

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87xG TIL Punxsutawney Phil is so bad at predicting the weather, we would have more accurate predictions with a coin flip.
6bYJ TIL there is only one species of warm-blooded fish on Earth - the opah (Lampris guttatus)
9w4W6 TIL that according to Hinduism, the Hindi words for "venus" and "semen" are the same because Shiva vored Shukra(the God of Venus) and he came out as semen.
gMnZb TIL of Eva Saxl, a diabetic woman who synthesised her own insulin in a basement during WWII, saving not only her own life but the lives of over 200 people in the Shanghai Ghetto who would have died when legal insulin became unavailable
4krwo TIL Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, grew to become the US Secretary of War (1881-1885) and lived to the age of 82, dying in 1926