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TIL that in 2014, a scientific paper was published with the phrase "get me off your f****g mailing list" repeated many times. The authors helped exposing what is known as a "predatory journal".

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6eGw TIL there are are catfish in France that have learned to lunge out of the water and hunt pigeons with a 28% success rate.
WLWX TIL that Perrier and one of its major competitors San Pellegrino are both owned by Nestlé.
DQAmr TIL of a less famous battle at Thermopylae where the Gauls beat the Greeks at 279BC
E1D8p TIL that in 1970, the state commission of Mississippi voted to ban Sesame Street because of its multicultural cast.
ebLb TIL that in order for stores in China to stock/sell tampons they have to import them, as Chinese companies made 85 billion sanitary pads last year, but not one tampon.