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TIL that Mythbusters got bullied out of airing an episode on how hackable and trackable RFID chips on credit cards are, when credit card companies threatened to boycott their TV network

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ADRn4 TIL Dr. Winnifred Cutler spent over 25 years researching reproductive biology and produced the Athena 10X pheromones to make men attractive to women. A reporter tried it in a museum, bars, and concluded pheromones don't work
W7Md9 TIL lead vocalist, bassist, & founding member of the band Biohazard and actor Evan Seinfeld is a second cousin of comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld. The two appeared together on an SNL skit crossing over Oz and Seinfeld.
OQy1 TIL the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was first published to the internet in 1990 and is older than the first web browsers.
n16o TIL That The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) was Sean Connery’s last acting role as he didn’t like playing aging old men in movies.
7DWO TIL that the man with the second highest IQ in the world (192) worked as a bartender and nude model, and is currently unemployed. He takes 38 pills/drugs a day, goes to the gym daily, and is writing a book.