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TIL corn flakes were invented to cure masturbation.

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E15gd TIL Morgan Freeman converted his 124-acre ranch into a giant sanctuary to protect honey bees
m1ZZv TIL that when the Bible was first translated into Finnish, there was no word for lion since nobody had ever seen one. The translator instead used the word “jalopeura” which means “noble deer”
5VXOp TIL that “Me at the zoo” was the first video ever posted to YouTube by co-founder Jawed Karin in 2005
9Yw7X TIL "Un Chien Andaloue" is 1929 surrealist short movie made by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel. At the Paris premiere Buñuel put stones in his pockets "to throw at the audience in case of disaster".
b6pvE TIL that ‘natural products from bacteria (and their derivatives) account for half of all commercially available pharmaceuticals’