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TIL of Saint Fiacre, the Patron Saint of Proctology and Hemorrhoid Sufferers

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b6g0Q TIL Lady Gaga snuck in NSFW lyrics into her popular song Poker Face. Only 1 radio station caught the edit (not a part of official lyrics) and called her on it. She hid "Fuck her face" in plain daylight as the response to "Poker Face"
VMvMD TIL that during the Lewis & Clark expedition Sacagawea was reunited with her brother Cameahwait, the "Great Chief" of the Lemhi Shoshones. This led to generous aid including selling horses, carrying cargo, sharing knowledge of the Bitterroot Mountains and the Columbia River, and supplying a guide.
GYr5J TIL in July 1999, four ladybugs and their favorite food, aphids, were sent into space on NASA's Columbia shuttle to research how aphids escaped the ladybugs without the aid of gravity.
wVvo TIL Turritopsis nutricula, the immortal jellyfish, is known to be the longest living creature which could live on forever without dying of old age
M7Rmb TIL about Watermelon Mosaic Virus spread by aphids looks like someone carved crop circles on a watermelon