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TIL that reddit is ranked one spot lower than pornhub in global internet traffic by Alexa

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9wdpG TIL Male cigarette smokers have significantly higher levels of total and free testosterone compared with men who never smoked.
6KNQ TIL: Dexter Holland, the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter of The Offspring has an MS in molecular biology, and in 2013 co-authored a paper on microRNA in HIV genomes. He owns a hot sauce company, and is a licensed flight instructor who has flown around the world on his own, in ten days.
aJnL TIL that scientists created the first synthetic living cell in 2010; they called it “Synthia.”
4XGp6 TIL The Three Stooges were Jewish, often used Yiddish in place of gibberish, and were the first in Hollywood to satirize Hitler in 1940 - nine months before Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator
6968w TIL During the 19th century, Armand David was the first westerner to 'discover' the Giant Panda, which he believed to be a "new species". In the course of his explorations, Père David sent back to Paris specimens of 63 previously unknown animals and 65 birds.