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TIL - Firefly Populations Are Declining In The US And Canada

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EA60 TIL That Peter I, II, III and IV were actually one person holding all titles at the same time.
Yp0Nx TIL George Foreman was originally paid 40% of the profits for endorsing the George Foreman Grill. At the peak of the grill’s sales, he was making 4.5 million dollars a month.
N7wle TIL that Simon Baron-Cohen, a well-known and influential scientist in the field of autism, and the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen are cousins
ADk07 TIL every year, large parts of the North American western coastline turn milky white as millions of herring collectively spray thousands of gallons of semen over their spawning grounds to take part in one of the largest mass-fertilizations of the animal kingdom.
WkJ5L TIL when Kylie Jenner tried to trademark her name Kylie™ in 2016, Australian pop star Kylie Minogue successfully got the request blocked, with her lawyers telling the US government Kylie Minogue is “internationally renowned” while Kylie Jenner is a “secondary reality TV personality.”