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TIL There is one animal that seems to survive without oxygen

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PGgV TIL Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
e0ylD TIL in 1911 there was a baseball team made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept wining games, their executions would be delayed.
yQ5pJ TIL that according to the Guinness Book of World Records, Marlon Brando was paid a record $3.7 million ($15 million in inflation-adjusted dollars) and 11.75% of the gross profits for 13 days’ work on Superman.
xVbgg TIL the original script of "Gone Girl" called for Ben Affleck's character to wear a Yankees cap in one scene. Affleck refused to do so even in character being a die hard Red Sox fan and this halted production for 4 days.
Jx0m TIL Leonhard Euler was the first mathematician to designate the function by writing it f(x).