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TIL of Hyperparasites; parasites that evolved to parasitize other parasites.

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ZpMvv TIL that in 1879, before an audience of American writers and artists in Paris, Mark Twain gave a speech called "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism" about the advantages and dangers of masturbation. It wouldn't be printed until 1943.
e0y96 TIL Brazilian billionaire Chiquinho Scarpa decided 2013 to bury his $500,000 car. This led to an outcry as he rather ruin his car than donate it. But at the burial Scarpa revealed his bluff to the press, saying that anyone who refuse to donate their organs bury something far more valuable than a car
gMBOL TIL of the shortest war in history that occured between Zanzibar and the British empire lasting only between 38-45 minutes.
rvrM TIL CIA Operation Mongoose tried to kill Castro with exploding cigars, shells to poisoned wetsuits, milkshakes, a former lover; character assassination via thallium to make his beard fall out and LSD. Castro: “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”
bGj TIL Issac Hayes’s “Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)”, reached number-one on the UK singles chart and also on the Irish singles chart.