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TIL that ladybugs can get STDs (Laboulbeniales fungus)

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jNyNa TIL that St. Valentine the saint of romantics and lovers is also the patron saint of epilepsy.
jGMn TIL that a gypsy boxer in Nazi Germany was threatened by the Nazis to throw his next match. He came into that match with his hair dyed blonde and with whiteface. He took blows for five rounds like he was asked before collapsing. The boxers name was Johann Trollmann
nb4P TIL that Otis Day and the Knights (the fictional R&B band from Animal House) kept getting gigs after the movie’s release — and they still perform today!
6N7W TIL: Sewer rats tails can become entangled and fused casing them to live the rest of there lives as Siamese twins. The condition is known as Rat King.
0wRoN TIL Membership applications by the UK to join the EU were refused in 1963 and 1967 because the French President of the time Charles de Gaulle doubted the UK’s political will.