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TIL Sheryl Crow believes that the average person should use only one square of TP per restroom visit

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4X7VR TIL that Japanese scientists hypothesized that zebras' stripes deter insects. So they painted black and white stripes on cows and striped cows had about 50% fewer biting flies land on them than unpainted cows.
nDGb TIL Irrational numbers are called irrational because they aren’t ratio-nal (they can’t be described as a ratio or fraction)
4XJg TIL George Takei wants Star Wars and Star Trek fans to come together and fight the Twilight menace.
5Gop TIL of Tom Blandon, a man who lived the Canadian dream. After a 9 year career in the NHL, in which he won two Stanley Cups and holds the record for highest plus/minus in a single game at +10, he retired to Alberta where he owns a Tim Hortons
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