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TIL the Greek poet Hipponax was so good at insulting people that his victims sometimes killed themselves.

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gMM0A TIL Actress Anne Dudek played characters in both “Friends” and “How I Met Your Mother” where she gets dumped on her birthday a total of three times. Once by Mike (Paul Rudd, Friends) and twice by Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor, HIMYM)
OGZE1 TIL about 'Sexual Parasitism' in Anglerfish, where the male dwarf fish bites an adult female, latches on, fusing its tissues to the female host to eventually share one circulatory system. The male eventually withers away, and all that is left is its testes.
VKlm TIL: Rolling Stone readers voted Nirvana at one of the worst bands of the 1990’s. Right along with Creed, Limp Bizkit and Hanson.
LA0v TIL In 2009, the UK Government joined the Netherlands and other European nations in encouraging teens to masturbate at least daily. An orgasm was defined as a right in its health pamphlet.
YJrW TIL Charles Drew, founder of the blood bank and pioneer of successful blood transfusions died after a failed blood transfusion.