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TIL the appendix is used as a safe-house for beneficial bacteria for when you have diarrhea

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4yN5 TIL Of Heterosis, also known as Hybrid Vigor, meaning hybrid animals grow faster and stronger than the parents and are also less susceptible to disease
7rloX TIL about the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction to cause the gradual voluntary extinction of humankind.
OGQWg TIL Frank Zappa told Alice Cooper to come audition for his record label at 7:00. Alice Cooper misunderstood and showed up at 7:00AM, which impressed Frank Zappa enough to sign them two three album deal.
6ZvZ TIL that nearly all vultures in India have died due to eating corpses of animals recently treated with the drug diclofenac. In a butterfly effect, there is now a major rabies problem, with an annual cost of US$26 billion per year.
yVXaa TIL that the green code from the movie The Matrix (1999) was inspired by a Japanese sushi cookbook.