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TIL: Penguin Poop Powers Antarctic Cloud Formation.

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e69D TIL that racism and homophobia are scientifically linked to lower IQs
0K5y TIL Robert Downey Jr. was able to return to the big screen after his drug addicted past because Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective after no one else would insure him on a movie set.
w6rE TIL in 1980 some dad cut his 8 year old’s penis off and flushed it down the toilet because he was late home. After a 90 minute search in the sewers, firemen recovered the penis and it was successfully attached back onto the boy in a 3h operation.
BrAvb TIL that Andrew Wood, lead singer for grunge band Mother Love Bone, died before reaching stardom. Upon his death, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and his friend Eddie Vedder collaborated with the band and created the album Temple of the Dog. Vedder then stayed with the band and created Pearl Jam.
xVLlb TIL: The analogy about frogs not jumping out of water that is slowly raised to boiling stems from a 19th-century experiment demonstrating just that ... but the frog previously had its brain removed.