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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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D1rVv TIL the actor who played the killer in Boyz N Da Hood later became a Blood and was locked up for a double homicide. He was then murdered and his body was used for a satanic ritual
RQd4 TIL if an aircraft is hijacked and forced to land at an airport, the pilot leaves the flaps of the aircraft down after landing as a covert visual cue to alert the control tower of a hijacking.
m1KVP TIL ... Volkswagens most-produced part is actually sausages.
5Vd1D TIL that Rube Goldberg never actually built a Rube Goldberg Machine, they were bi-weekly comic strips. It was other people who built his designs and other such machines.
9wYmD TIL: Ordinary ice is called ice Ih, because it has hexagonal crystals. But if you cool it below -37 °C, scientists believe it will gradually turn into a cubic form, called ice Ic.