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TIL corn flakes were invented to cure masturbation.
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TIL that the switch from $1 bills to $1 coins would save American taxpayers approximately $4.4 billion in the next 30 years. This is because coins are significantly more durable than paper bills.
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TIL Confucius's real name was just "Kung" or "Kong." Confucius is a latinization of "Kong Fuzi," which really means "Grand Master Kong"
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TIL that birds can see the Earth's magnetic field due to the presence of a protein in their retina called Cryptochrome(Cryp4)
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TIL that female dragonflies will fake their own death to avoid unwanted advances from male dragonflies
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TIL that Gene Roddenberry envisioned Jean-Luc Picard as someone who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair,” so Patrick Stewart auditioned for the role wearing an “awful looking” hairpiece. His performance impressed everyone so much that they hired him anyway, and made him ditch the toupee.