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TIL that Mark Cuban co-founded a company with the aim of making prescription drugs radically more affordable in the USA

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Y7vLx TIL that giraffes, while previously thought to be mute, actually do make vocalizations and even hum to each other at night.
MexQ7 TIL Marilyn Monroe never intentionally posed for the first issue of Playboy. Hefner paid $500 to a Chicago calendar company for the photos which were taken 4 years earlier. Marilyn was paid $50 for the initial shoot and had to buy a copy of the magazine herself to see the photos.
Y7jr7 TIL in 1975, the USSR planned an invasion of Chile to rescue Luis Corvalán
E1d9X TIL Rage Against the Machine unsuccessfully sued the State Department for using their song "Killing in the name of" in torture methods at Guantanamo Bay.
JYvgV TIL Rats and mice have hooked sperms and in some species they hook together to make a daisy chain that can swim faster