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TIL that reindeer and caribou are the same animal

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aepM TIL: In a report from 2013, most of the funds raised by the NFL don’t fund cancer research. In the end, after everybody has taken their cut, only 8.01% of money spent on pink NFL merchandise is actually going towards cancer research.
KOlZJ TIL that a researcher in South Africa, J.J. Steyn convinced people to use spider colonies to control flies and it worked much better than chemical pesticides.
6wYw TIL there’s a script floating around Hollywood for a show called Time Jack, about a guy who, every time he masturbates, he travels through time. If he hates the time, he whacks off and he’s gone. If he loves it, he can stay—as long as he doesn’t masturbate.
QJOg9 TIL that in 1937 a massive demand for sulfa, the first and only effective broad-spectrum antibiotic available before penicillin, and nonexistent testing requirements led to a mass poisoning with over 100 deaths. This led to the passage of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938.
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