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TIL Ray Parker Jr, writer, composer and performer of the Ghostbusters theme song, is afraid of ghosts - contrary to his claim that he “ain’t afraid of no ghosts”.

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8a6EV TIL mother polar bears nurse their cubs for as long as 30 months. Some cubs stop nursing as young as 18 months of age, but remain with their mothers for survival until they are 30 months old. The average fat content of polar bear milk is 33%, similar to the milkfat content of other marine mammals.
VAp8 TIL that it was accidentally discovered that graphene can be made with a consumer DVD burner.
kOnve TIL cows and humans have very similar reproductive systems.
v1Zxr TIL Frederick Douglass Was The Most Photographed Man Of His Time and sat for more portraits during the 1800s than even Abraham Lincoln. He spelled out in four speeches, essays on why photography is so important in ending slavery and racism and achieving civil rights
Oopo4 TIL Thomas Jefferson made his own version of the Bible stripping Jesus of his divinity, miracles, and the resurrection and until the 1950s each newly elected US Senator received a copy.