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TIL Gerard Way (lead singer of My Chemical Romance) is Joe Rogan's second cousin.

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bN97 TIL that the word plagiarism comes from plagiarii. In the ancient Mediterranean world, plagiarii were pirates who kidnapped young children, among other misdeeds. When plagiarists claim someone else’s ideas as their own, they steal someone else’s brainchild.
kaRB TIL that Mexico used to defend its borders against illegal immigration from the United States.
V84m TIL A simple laser procedure can turn brown eyes blue
4k1kN TIL from a 2014 paper that the majority of weight loss occurs via breathing: "According to researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia, when weight is lost, the majority of it is breathed out as carbon dioxide."
16ZZO TIL about Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist and mathematician, and his groundbreaking creation of a vacuum. In 1643, he invented the barometer, an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure that led to his famous observation that, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air."