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TIL Nematodes (roundworms), are readily dispersed by wind and make up about one per cent of wind-drifted animals.

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Z8VV4 TIL that about 1/4 of people will sneeze on sudden exposure to bright light
0LxN TIL when Freddie Mercury recorded the album Mr. Bad Guy he planned on collaborating with Michael Jackson but cancelled after one song because he felt uncomfortable recording with Jackson’s pet llama in the studio.
yQvNp TIL that the character of Lois Lane was based on pioneering investigative journalist Nellie Bly, known for her undercover exposé as an inmate of a mental institution in 1887. She also reported on Europe's Eastern Front during World War I and took a trip around the world in a record-breaking 72 days.
6beZ TIL that the first documented appearance of “the finger” in the United States was in 1886, when Charles Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of their rival the New York Giants.
5V9B9 TIL that 80s child actress Judith Barsi made so much money by 4th grade, her family bought a house in West Hills. She died at age 10 when her father killed the entire family. Her final films, “The Land Before Time” and “All Dogs Go To Heaven,” were released posthumously.