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TIL the national Do Not Call (DNC) Registry does not include calls being made for the sole purpose of conducting a survey or poll, those calls are exempt.

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Rb4Q TIL that for $700, girls can get their hymen rebuilt to fake virginity when getting married in China.
45Ro TIL there is a group of wolves in British Columbia aptly called the “sea wolves” that gets most of its food from the sea, and will even swim up to 8 miles to reach islands for food.
pBMe TIL that 8% of Asian men and .05% of men in the world are descendants of Genghis Khan
xVWyD TIL Lynn Margulis, proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution (bacteria merging into other bacteria to form more complex cells), had such trouble getting her ideas recognized that a grant proposal was returned with "Your research is crap. Don't ever bother to apply again."
b6pvE TIL that ‘natural products from bacteria (and their derivatives) account for half of all commercially available pharmaceuticals’