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TIL that in 2012, porn stars Sara Jay and Angelina Castro offered their Twitter followers who were also Miami Heat fans blow jobs if the team won the NBA title, and were true to their words.

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0Ae1 TIL over 10,000 people paid $2 for a phone app to “zap” their acne. The FTC made the developers withdraw their claims.
KOZ5G TIL about a baseball team that literally played for their lives. An integrated team of death-row inmates was assembled, called The Penitentiary All Stars, played against other local teams in Wyoming, and earned the prison officials money from gambling. Winning earned the team stays of execution.
78WRp TIL: The earliest recorded famine which occurred in Egypt in 3500 BC was preserved visually in a relief that survives on the causeway of the Fifth-Dynasty Pyramid of Unas in Sakkara
gMwwA TIL there’s a protein made by placenta cells called syncytin which aids in the attachment of the placenta to the uterine wall, making it essential for nutrients to get to the developing fetus. The gene that codes for the protein actually came from a virus millions of years ago.
VBjkm TIL that hummingbirds are the only birds capable of flying backwards! Their wing structure allows them to hover in place and move any direction, making them incredibly agile fliers. They also undertake remarkable migrations, flying ~500 miles nonstop across the Gulf of Mexico in a season.