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TIL that Seth MacFarlane was only 24 when Family Guy was first aired on TV. which makes him the youngest executive producer in history

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9GdM TIL that 40% of the genetic information found in our GI Tract doesn’t fit anything ever classified before. Biologists call it “Biological Dark Matter”.
J1y7j TIL that Violet Jessop is called “Queen of sinking ships” and “Miss Unsinkable" as she survived three shipwrecks: RMS Olympic in 1911, RMS Titanic in 1912, HMHS Britannic in 1916 .
m1aQv TIL about Cystisoma - This species is completely transparent. Their "eyes" are very big relative to body size, as they are the entire surface of their head.
rak0 TIL in 1861 the entire student body of the University of Mississippi enlisted in the Confederate Army as a single company. All were either killed, wounded, or captured.
grPXD TIL That the buildings on Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti album and the building Mick Jagger is standing on the stoop of in the Rolling Stones’ Waiting On A Friend music video, are one and the same.