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TIL that exposure to UV light increases sex drive
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TIL that Monty Python member Graham Chapman’s final words were reported to be “Sorry for saying fuck” to a nurse who accidentally stuck a needle in his arm shortly before he died.
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TIL For the rules of soccer to change globally, at least two out of the 4 British football associations (British, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Ireland) must agree to it
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TIL that the “cost per GFLOPS” (the cost for a computer that would operate at one billion floating-point operations per second) in 1961 was of $1,100,000,000,000 ($1.1 trillion), while nowadays it is of merely $0.08.
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TIL that a team of thieves stole $18,000 worth of high-tech equipment from a warehouse. Unfortunately for them, about 100 GPS tracking devices were among the items taken, so they were tracked down within hours.
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TIL that in the original Wizard of Oz book, Dorothy wears Silver Slippers, not ruby. The color of the shoes was changed to red to take advantage of the new Technicolor film process used in big-budget Hollywood films of the era.