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TIL author Honoré de Balzac, best known for The Human Comedy, wrote a fanfiction sequel to the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin

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GYZa1 TIL Libyan leader Gaddafi spoke a dialect of Arabic that was hard for other Arabs to understand and often spoke for hours without notes by saying the first thing that came into his head. He once spoke at the London School of Oriental and African Studies by direct satellite and was 90% unintelligible
ne6KB TIL collecting toad sperm is easy; many release it in urine. Scoop 'em up and they urinate/ejaculate in fear. But what if they don't? According to Diane Barber of Fort Worth Zoo: "It's kind of weird, but if you hold them in your hand and look at them and bark at them like a dog, then they will pee".
M7ZK TIL that we are NOT running out of Helium any time soon.
w7r6 TIL that Goldman Sachs maintains its own proprietary programming language (Slang) that is known only to its employees.
b6D4 TIL that Sofia Vergara posed Topless for GQ Mexico