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TIL Eli Swanson, the guy who played the astronaut in the Britney Spears' "Oops! I Dit It Again" is now an orthopaedic trauma surgeon.

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R5D11 TIL: In 2020, a person named Kevin Bacon (not the actor) was murdered and had has balls eaten by a man he found on Grindr. The cannibal previously fled from the police wearing a kilt
ANQjo TIL of Dan Black, a UK man who became paralyzed and fundraised for an experimental stem cell treatment to help him walk again. Upon reaching his a goal, he heard of a young boy who also needed the treatment. He donated all of the funds to the young boy and Dan Black still remains paralyzed today.
D1Vmv TIL that birds in the Netherlands fly higher on New Year's Eve to avoid the fireworks
xVWQg TIL grasshoppers & locusts are the same species. Grasshoppers are generally solitary & innocuous, but when overcrowded, a chemical releases in their brain which turns them into a locust — ravenous, horny, and attracted to large groups. Oddly enough, that brain chemical is: Serotonin
gMbNX TIL Sir David Lean's 1948 film adaption of Oliver Twist was banned in Israel for Sir Alec Guinness's performance as Fagin, which it considered too anti-Semitic. Egypt banned it for portraying Fagin too sympathetically