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TIL Zablon Simintov is the only jew left in Afghanistan

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gr0Mb TIL that grunion fish have unusual mating habits. The females will burrow tail-first into the sand up to their necks so that only their heads stick out. Then a bunch of males will squirt their sperm onto their heads. The sperm trickles down their bodies to reach the eggs below them.
ADeMB TIL about Operation Mindf**k: a group of 1960s pranksters who wanted to show how ridiculous conspiracy theories were by placing stories in the media attributing all calamities and conspiracies in the world to an 18th century Bavarian society called the Illuminati.
5VgjD TIL that no one in ACDC knew how to play the bagpipes when they recorded "It's a Long Way to the Top". Bon Scott had to teach himself enough to record the song.
x6Elk TIL Bruce Springsteen wrote a song for the Ramones after Joey Ramone asked him to. However, his manager convinced him to keep it, as songs Bruce gave to other artists kept becoming hits, while Bruce didn't have big hit singles yet. That song ended up being Hungry Heart, Bruce's first top 5 single.
BgXQW TIL that airplanes in WWI and WWII used Synchronization gear to allow guns to shoot through the propeller without destroying it.