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TIL Dung Beetles are the only animal on Earth other than Humans to use the stars for navigation

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nejab TIL A British Fertility Doctor Impregnated Women With His Own Sperm 600 Times.
rRg6W TIL the oldest material we've found on Earth was in the Murchison meteorite, being 2.5 billion years older than Earth itself
l7vVG TIL about Roman Gabriel, the first NFL quarterback of Filipino decent drafted 1st round by the Raiders and the Rams in 1962, NFL's league MVP in 1969, and set so many records from high-school through the pros all the while overcoming asthma
VjGm TIL that in 1856 a school master strangled a student for stepping on his tame parrot. Afterwards the boy’s father went to the school and shot the schoolmaster dead.
7rE6Z TIL that Edgar Rice Burrows, escaped the Chicago flu epidemic of 1891, because he spent half a year at his brother's ranch in Idaho.