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TIL The photographer who took the picture of the starving African child with a vulture waiting for her death committed suicide after 3 months. His suicide note said “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain.“

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e0WJE TIL crickets have the largest testes in the world compared to body ratio - at 14% of their weight - b/c they have a LOT of sex. Highly promiscuous female Mormon crickets also FIGHT TO EAT SPERM (spermatophore). The spermatophore can be 27% of the male's body weight.
9YoEG TIL that in 1997 a person consumed 2-4 L of soda for a month leading to too much bromine (from brominated vegetable oil) which required dialysis to remove.
Vbam TIL that Apple used to add the letter “x” to the names of their computers which got a processor upgrade. The convention was broken with Macintosh SE/30, which, if the rule was effective, would be called “Macintosh SEx.”
nWwwo TIL that Frank Sinatra carried 10 dimes with him at all times and was even buried with 10 dimes in his pocket. This habit stemmed from the 1963 kidnapping of his son where the kidnappers only communicated by payphone, and Sinatra worried he would not have enough coins for the calls.
0d1xA TIL Ben Stiller developed the premise for Tropic Thunder while shooting Empire of the Sun. He wanted to make a film based on the actors he knew who became "self-important" & appeared to believe they had been part of a real military unit after taking part in boot camps to prepare for war film roles.