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6adZ TIL that the Portuguese Man-O-War is not a jellyfish, but a siphonophore, which is a colonial organism.
mK4p TIL the president of Vivid Entertainment offered Honey Boo Boo’s parents $1 million to appear in a pornographic film with the working title “Here Comes Diabetus”.
wLjgP TIL There is no age limit to be the House Speaker, you just have to be a US Citizen to be 3rd in the line of succession.
0Z0v TIL that Kim Ung-yong understood algebra at age 3, by the time he was 2 could speak 4 languages fluently, started attending university at age 4 and graduated at age 8, and has the highest I.Q. (210) in the world.
kO1OE TIL it’s estimated that about 85 percent of hospitals still rely on pagers for communication.