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TIL that ladybugs can get STDs (Laboulbeniales fungus)

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awLOM TIL the top 4 most watched TV broadcasts in US history are all Super Bowls
v1pjK TIL The WWII German submarine U-69's official crest contained the phrase (in German) Tally ho! with signal flags for the letters L M A...which stand for exactly what you think it stands for. Nice.
xVWyD TIL Lynn Margulis, proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution (bacteria merging into other bacteria to form more complex cells), had such trouble getting her ideas recognized that a grant proposal was returned with "Your research is crap. Don't ever bother to apply again."
QaBe Today I learned that Florida US Rep Alcee Hastings was impeached as a federal judge for bribery and perjury and was elected to Congress 4 years later.
WkAA8 TIL that in 2004, a woman's steel chastity belt triggered a security alarm at the metal detector. The woman explained that her husband had forced her to wear the device to prevent an extramarital affair while she was on vacation in Greece. She continued her flight to London on the pilot's authority.