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TIL Katy Perry wrote "I Kissed A Girl" after seeing a picture of Scarlett Johansson

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7r0rr TIL about 'holy anorexia' - Medieval Catholic saints "refused food, but drank the pus from the sores of the sick. Angela of Foligno is reported to have said it was as "sweet as the Eucharist", and also to have eaten the scabs and lice from those same patients"
YpKeG TIL Jeff Bezos was Time Magazines Man of the Year in 1999
x6x61 TIL that the symptoms of Pellagra (a formerly common vitamin deficiency disease) are the “four D’s”: Dermatitis, Diarrhea, Dementia and Death
awV6M TIL that honey bees only die after stinging humans and other mammals with thick skin, but are perfectly capable of attacking other insects. Their barbed stinger gets stuck in the thick skin making them disembowel themselves when they try to escape and die.
kOAxm TIL that the inventor of the cereal Apple Jacks is currently a professor of biological engineering at MIT and invented the cereal as a summer intern