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TIL that ‘Seinfeld’ has earned over $2.7 billion since it went off air in 1998.

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W7pbA TIL Many types of marine birds have a “salt gland” which functions similarly to a kidney and allows them to excrete salt from the fish and other ocean life they’ve eaten.
DQg9v TIL of the 1981 film Roar, starring Tippi Hedren, her husband Noel Marshall , her daughter Melanie Griffith and Noel's two sons. It has been described as "the most dangerous film ever made" in which they used wild, untrained animals. Although no deaths occured, numerous serious injuries did.
vBpx TIL That there is a star 50 light-years from earth in the constellation Centaurus (BPM 37093) that is pure crystallized carbon, which means it is a dimond that weighs 10 billion trillion trillion carats. Written out that would be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 carats.
Nowb TIL that the US government believes killer bees are so dangerous, you should not help others but only flee as fast as you can. Don’t bother jumping into water, either; the bees will wait for you to come up for air.
8a8a8 TIL attacking your avocado tree can shock it into bearing fruit.