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TIL: Researchers report that they used newly discovered gut bacteria enzymes to convert type A blood to type O at a rate faster than ever before.

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OodLe TIL, Joey Cramer, who starred in the movie Flight of the Navigator as a child, robbed a bank in 2016 with the intent of getting sent to prison in order to get himself off drugs and save his own life.
v1geR TIL The production of the movie "The Island of Dr. Moreau" was so insanely difficult that inspired a documentary called "Lost Soul" . The director hated Val Kilmer so much that said “Even if I was directing a film called The Life of Val Kilmer, I wouldn’t have that prick in it”
GX77 TIL that, directly after he delivered this speech on FOX, Judge Napolitano was fired.
1aya4 TIL: South America, despite its position in relation to the Equator, is rarely affected by tropical cyclones (aka Hurricanes, Typhoons)
6j68 TIL in 2011 a billionaire CEO’s girlfriend was found hanged from a balcony while naked, gagged with a tee shirt wrapped around her head and neck, both ankles and wrists bound, and tape residue on her legs. San Diego police ruled the death a suicide.