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TIL A cockroach will fart about every 15 minutes.

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QJAbE TIL Teetotalism is the practice or promotion of complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages. A person who practises and/or advocates teetotalism is called a teetotaler (plural teetotalers) or is simply said to be teetotal.
LkNNp TIL of Mary Blagg--an early 20th-century astronomer who pioneered the field of lunar nomenclature. She was tasked with naming every discernible feature on the moon, leading her to create a list detailing thousands upon thousands of craters, fissures, and gullies along its surface.
kOj7g TIL com­pos­ing and ar­ran­ging mu­sic is partly ge­net­ically de­term­ined. Up to 30 percent of a musician's ability to compose and arrange music can be explained by genes in the cerebellar LTD pathway.
BrPLx TIL that the movie Serpico was filmed in reverse, and Al Pacino had to be shaved as the shooting progressed. Pacino started with long beard and hair. He was shaved to a mustache, and then eventually his hair was cut, and he was clean-shaven for the beginning of the film.
8wYP TIL The British are close to having a single stage spacecraft capable of over 180 spaceflights a year.