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TIL gut worms are really common, and can benefit your health.

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GYDa7 TIL in a review/comparison for the video games "Infamous" and "Prototype", Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation ruled a tie for quality and jokingly said that a tiebreaker would involve the developers dressing up the competing game's protagonist in drag. Both development teams complied.
xp1 TIL that in the card game Euchre, played with a twenty-four card deck, the “Bauer” refers to the most powerful card in the trump suit, which is commonly taken to be the Jack. Coincidentally, Jack Bauer from the TV show is the best agent, in a show that has twenty-four episodes a season.
w4b1 TIL of the marriage market in Shanghai, China. Every weekend parents come to the market to exchange information about their unmarried adult children and arrange blind dates.
JY8j1 TIL Viruses kill about 25-30% of the living material in the oceans every day. When they infect and kill organisms, nutrients such as carbon and phosphorous are released into the ocean. This keeps microbes and phytoplankton thriving. If you take the viruses out of seawater, photosynthesis stops
YpoGW TIL that in State v. Linkhaw, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation."