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TIL that Charisma Carpenter of ‘Buffy’ stood up to a serial rapist and helped put him away for 50+ years, before she was famous

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LkyMP TIL After Oprah's famous "You get a car" episode, where she gave away 276 cars at a total cost of $7.6 million, many of the recipients sent in complaints to the show as they had all been charged a $6-7k "gift tax".
vPp5L TIL: There is a comprehensive scientific study on genital size and attractiveness which suggests that throughout history, female mating preferences resulted in the evolution of larger sizes. The study contradicts the claim that size doesn't matter. It was funded by the Australian Research Council.
wLmYY TIL The international parking sign was first designed for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
m1V5E TIL that Limpets, the little conical sea snails found all over the world, develop "Homescars", their favorite places to sit on rocks, which is a little depression etched out of the surface of the solid rock from them frequenting that location.
6EObX TIL that the Soviets realised that the Americans and British were developing an atomic bomb when they noticed that Western scientists had ceased publishing papers on nuclear science. Correctly guessing that nuclear science had been made a state secret, they began their own program