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TIL That iodine deficiency currently affects around 2 billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disability.

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vPKkB TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination. That is, a male will simply climb onto a female, stab her in the side of her body with his hypodermic penis, and release his sperm into her body cavity.
O5Zg TIL the French voice actors for Homer and Marge Simpson met at the 1989 auditions, and went on to get married.
rN17o TIL of Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, who had his leg blown off by a cannon in the Battle of Waterloo. It was put in a shrine in the garden of the house where he was amputated, becoming a local tourist attraction.
wLLBE It's not that meanies are more physically attractive than everyone else. They're just very good at fooling us.
RY7Q TIL Honeybees in France were feeding off discarded colored M&M shells, turning their honey to shades of green and blue.