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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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5Yemp TIL 1.5 yrs after Norm Macdonald was fired from Saturday Night Live, he was asked back to host. In his opening monologue he asked "How did I go from not being funny enough, to being so funny I'm hosting the damn show? Then it occured to me. I haven't gotten funnier - the show has gotten really bad."
vPGeR TIL we used Malaria to treat Syphilis
7Ngr TIL that future anchorman Dan Rather was standing 30 yards from the grassy knoll during the Kennedy assassination
EbeX TIL: U.S. ranked 49th in Freedom of Press. Down from 17th in 2002.
0LP5 TIL the oldest living vertebrate is the Greenland Shark, which is estimated to be about 400 years old-though could be as old as 512