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TIL that opossums not only eat lots of deer ticks, but they are also resistant to venomous snake bites.

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go5y TIL Joss Whedon was the reason Toy Story was greenlit…after he took 4 months to rewrite the entire script (scroll to part II)
p8vJp TIL The inventor of the PSA test, taken by over 30 million American men yearly to detect prostate cancer, called it a "profit-driven public health disaster". He also stated that the test is "hardly more effective than a coin toss".
Zpdlp TIL that pig butchering scammers (the ones sending random texts to "wrong numbers", then befriending you until they take all of your money) are largely trafficked people forced to participate in scams.
GY8VJ TIL HBO Max did not choose its name to be descriptive. Rather, it's a portmanteau of HBO and Cinemax, which are owned by the same company