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TIL There is a club in NYC called “Macaulay Culkin’s iPod” where Macaulay Culkin shows up, plugs his ipod in and the party begins.

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5VmB8 TIL that the stationary lifestyle of barnacles makes sexual reproduction difficult, as they cannot leave their shells to mate. To compensate, they evolved to have the largest penis to body size ratio of the animal kingdom: up to eight times their body length.
XJNk TIL that a “safer cigarette” (The XA Project) was developed in the 70s but tobacco companies pressured the inventor to bury it because it implied their cigarettes were unsafe.
yQKQX TIL that there is a monument to laboratory mice at a university in Siberia. The mouse is wearing a lab coat and knitting a DNA double helix, symbolizing the gradual progress of DNA research.
kgg4 TIL of John Stapp, a man who withstood 46.2 Gs of gravity, suffered a detached retina and went 632 MPH all in a single run on a deceleration sled
4Qb TIL Bill Murray wanders around New York, randomly crashing parties and giving fatherly advice to people.