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TIL the first U.S. pennies had the inscription “Mind Your Business”.

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7MGL TIL there is an area in Venezuela where lightning strikes 280 to 3,600 times an hour, 300 nights per year. It is called Relámpago del Catatumbo, or “the everlasting storm”.
e0loE TIL that John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, spotted a cloud of strange glowing “fireflies” on his second orbit. Later NASA confirmed that the fireflies were simply droplets of his own urine that had been expelled from his craft during his previous orbit.
00g5 TIL that scientists have created kittens that glow in the dark to help fight AIDS
jQMQ TIL Sex alleviates headaches so effectively that some people have started to sex as a treatment for headaches
bvZa TIL Richard Owen (who created the word Dinosaur) exploited his crippled peer Gideon Mantell, by claiming ownership and renaming his discoveries. After Mantels suicide, Owen wrote his obituary calling Mantell a mediocre Scientist. He then had Mantells spine removed, pickled, and stored.