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TIL that the NFL set up a committee to falsify information and hide brain damage in its players

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4kVVg TIL that mosquitos don't feed on blood as their daily source of food; they actually consume nectar. Female mosquitos only require blood as a source of protein to develop their eggs.
ne1jr TIL that another star passed through our solar system 70,000 years ago. Early humans may have looked up to see another star passing through our solar system.
Mebom TIL Apple’s smartphone wasn’t the first iPhone, the first was made by Cisco 22 days earlier. The Cisco “iPhone” was a VoIP device that allowed its customers to use Skype without a computer. The companies later settled the trademark lawsuit, with both keeping rights to the iPhone name.
8e448 TIL about a Frenchman named Tarrare, who was a French showman, soldier and spy known for an unusually large appetite. He could eat live animals, quarter of a bullock in a day, he was suspected of eating a one year old toddler while in the hospital. Finally died of exudative diarrhea and tuberculosis
eMrJ TIL that James Earl Jones once used the handle “Darth Vader” while travelling across the country and spoke, in character, to truck drivers on the CB radio. Apparently, the drivers would really freak out so he stopped doing it.