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TIL Intelligent people tend to be messy, stay awake longer, and swear more

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KYdRQ TIL that Daisuke Inoue, the inventor of the karaoke machine, also created a pesticide to repel cockroaches and rats that destroy the electronics within karaoke machines
jNQna TIL raccoons wash their food yo soften it because they don’t have saliva glands.
yVaQw TIL The Hodges meteorite that hit Ann Hodges on November 30, 1954 (making her the only known human to be injured by direct impact with a meteorite) was used as a doorstop for a while, as the Hodges couldn't initially find a buyer.
NXM66 TIL Mikio Okuda , a farmer in Japan, carefully grows a type of strawberry, Bijin-Hime, and sells just one for $500
lexa TIL that Lena Dunham did not in fact rise from obscurity. She was born to old-money artists and was mentioned in Vogue at the age of 12 and had an article written about her in the New York Times at the age of 16