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TIL: Ron Jeremy Has Been in a Record Number of Movies, Finding His Way Into The Guinness Book of World Records

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WL68 TIL Teddy Roosevelt was involved in a bar fight, which began after a man bullied him for wearing glasses. Teddy, being an experienced boxer, knocked the man out cold after one punch.
b9vG9 TIL avocados depended on megafaunas to disperse its seeds. However, when the megafaunas became extinct, avocados survived primarily due to human cultivation.
YpmGZ TIL that the writers of 'Murder She Wrote', when moved to Thursday against 'Friends' wrote an episode where the murder occurred on the set of a fictional show called 'Buds'
9A8m TIL a South African IT company proved that it was faster to send information via carrier pigeon than the country’s leading internet service provider.
4XE6a TIL of Tarrare, an 18th century Frenchman with abnormal eating habits. He ate live animals, rocks, military documents, and allegedly a toddler. When he died of TB, doctors found him to have an enormous, pus-filled stomach, and other oversized organs. You could see his stomach from down his mouth.