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TIL Abercrombie & Fitch offered $10,000 to cast members of "The Jersey Shore" if they'd agree to stop wearing the brand on the show

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kOKgm TIL there is a bird named honeyguide. it is guiding humans to bee colonies. Once the hive is open and the honey is taken, the bird feeds on the remaining larvae and wax.
mZvP TIL that organized “wife swapping” was started in the 1940s on U.S. Air Force bases by fighter pilots and their wives. Researchers found it was “a kind of tribal bonding ritual, with a tacit understanding that the two thirds of husbands who survived would look after the widows.”
VMD4D TIL about a Japanese seafood processing company where workers can work whenever they want, and every week they report what tasks they dislike, which they are then not allowed to do.
YpQ9Z TIL in 2012 the "average" car sold in the UK was a 5-year-old Vauxhall Corsa with 57,000 miles on the clock.
AD1vn TIL that rigor mortis in the dartos muscle in the scrotum may lead to post mortem ejaculation of semen and may get wrongly interpreted to sexual activity just before death.