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TIL Cryos, the world’s largest sperm bank, has started turning down redheaded donors because there is too little demand for their sperm

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l75jB TIL about the Sea Spider, a deep sea arthropod native to all of the world's oceans. The Sea Spider, which can grow to the size of a housecat, uses its proboscis to suck the guts of its soft-bodied prey. The prey sometimes survives this feeding, but in a weakened state.
Brvay TIL that St. Claire of Assisi, who died in 1253 A.D., was named the Patron Saint of Television by Pope Pius XII in 1958, based on an incident in which she claimed the moving image and sound of a Catholic Mass had been miraculously projected on the wall of her room when she was too sick to attend.
yVrQp TIL - Lemons aren't a naturally ocurring food. Studies have shown that the lemon is a cross between bitter orange (which itself is a hybrid of pomelos and mandarins) and citron.
XE0yX TIL Ronnie O'Sullivan, considered one of the greatest snooker players of all time, once purposely missed a maximum score of 147 by one point because he didn't think the £10,000 prize was high enough.
ADJ5B TIL a 3,000-acre wilderness wolf sanctuary in Frazier Park, CA helps heal military veterans who have treatment-resistent PTSD. Vets are paired with hurt, abandoned and exploited captive wolves/wolf-dog hybrids to tend to daily.