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TIL Spallanzani, an Italian Catholic priest and biologist was one of the first to disprove abiogenesis (life from non-life) by using tight fitted pants on male frogs which lead to failure to copulate and thus failure to reproduce.

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4X7DR TIL the Jurassic Park film crew were stranded after a hurricane. The pilot that flew them to safety was the same pilot who played Jock, the guy that flew Indiana Jones to safety in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark over 11 years earlier
BXBD TIL Wil.I.Am created the Samurai Jack theme song
xGNk TIL Since being discovered by the timber industry in the 1850s, 96% of the 2,000,000 acres of old-growth Coast Redwood trees in California have been logged.
rNABd TIL about Goldbach's conjecture, one of the oldest and best-known unsolved problems in mathematics. It states that every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers. The conjecture remains unproven despite considerable effort.
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