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TIL It was found that men infected with toxoplasmosis found the smell of cat urine to be more pleasant than men who were not infected

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epBmE TIL that the California St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928, a midnight-hour 120' wave that killed 431 sleeping people and wiped out giant sections of land more than 50 miles west to Ventura, was caused by the dam having been built on a fault zone (in addition to the dam's retention of water).
Br1Db TIL There’s a type of Wasp that turns cockroaches into ‘Zombies’ and then uses their bodies as hosts for their larvae
4XZW5 TIL that "Charlie" as used to refer to enemies in movies like Forrest Gump comes from the spoken alphabet, where the words "Victor Charlie" meant the letters VC = Viet Cong. As this was used a lot in radio communications, over time it became shortened to just "Charlie".
PYDG TIL: In 1908, Tesla predicted the Internet but with all our devices using wireless electricity to boot.
rNm8y TIL there have been more than 60,000 episodes of Sportscenter, which is more than any other program in american tv