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TIL the average man picks his nose around four times a day

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gMVmW TIL In the early comics, Aquaman went to college to learn about fish, where he gives himself the clever alias "Mr. waterman" only to out himself as Aquaman to the swim coach.
WemX TIL from 1970 to 2010, populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined by an average of 52%. We are not in the “beginning” of the Sixth Great Extinction. We are in the middle of it.
myDo TIL when the Pentagon called one the original Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurants requesting delivery service, one of the founders (Jerry Murrell) declined to bend the rules for their request and instead ordered a 22-foot-long banner that said ‘ABSOLUTELY NO DELIVERY.’
MeaZa TIL in 1978, two punk bands, "the cramps" and "the mutants", were booked to play a live show at a mental institution in Napa, California. At onother point, the mutants played at a school for the deaf, with the kids holding balloons in their hand in order to "feel the music"
Q0K6 TIL the US is seeking a new law requiring foreign institutions to report all assets owned by Americans which has lead to more people renouncing their citizenship in the last quarter of 2013 than the entire years of 2006-2009 combined.