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TIL there is a gene in E. Coli called YeeT

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a8pR0 TIL King Charles is a descendant of the real life Dracula.
d87p9 TIL that in 1972, Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack shot a feature-length documentary on Aretha Franklin but forgot to use clapperboards, which made it impossible to sync audio and video and left all of the footage unusable. The film was finally salvaged and released 46 years later.
nOR7 TIL that the parody national anthem or Kazakhstan from Borat was accidentally downloaded and played in its entirety for a Kazakh gold medalist during the 2012 Olympics
xV9Kb TIL that some women who meet their boyfriend/husband while on birth control find that they’re no longer sexually attracted to him once they quit birth control in order to start a family.
1aVOV TIL of the "the loneliest whale in the world," who roams the seas without a pack, crying out a 52-hertz mating call too high for other whales to hear. Except some scientists think other whales are actually just ignoring him: "all these whales can hear this guy...He's just odd."