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TIL a 15 year old boy got 780,000 pornographic sites banned in Pakistan.

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9YdyM TIL That sharks don't blink. To protect their eyes some sharks roll their eyes backwards to protect them when striking prey.
w4K6 TIL: Sigurd ‘The Mighty’ recieved a great case of karma. Sigurd challenged Máel Brigte 'The Tusk’, to a 40-man-a-side battle. Treacherously, Sigurd brought 80 men, and The Tusk was beheaded. Sigurd tied the head to his horse but The Tusks buckteeth scratched Sigurd’s leg and he died from infection.
Meem7 When mosquito bites, it pierces your skin and draws blood with the tip of its straw-like mouth, or proboscis.
RA97 TIL of John Leray, a French Mathematician who concealed his proficiency with differential equations to avoid working for the Nazis. While in a POW camp, he developed sheaves, sheaf cohomology, and spectral sequences which are important tools for modern Algebraic Geometry
QDE6 TIL that in Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit the children hard during the dodgeball scene. The quick cuts weren’t to make it look like he was throwing hard, it was because the children were crying afterwards. Sandler’s pitch for the idea? “Hurting kids is funny.”