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TIL That Jerry Seinfeld Has Made More Than $400m From Syndication of the Show Seinfeld Since the Final Episode

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Ooal1 TIL that every Autumn a fungus epidemic kills off 75% of house flies. It attacks their brain forcing them to land on a surface and climb to the highest point, stand up on its front legs and spread its wings. The fungus then erupts from its abdomen to be spread to other flies.
5Y0P8 TIL: Graham Crackers Were Created to Kill Your Sex Drive
49mb TIL - The National Forest Service tested whether or not bears were attracted to menstruating women by measuring wild bears’ responses to either tampons or to four menstruating women. “Menstrual odors were essentially ignored by [all] black bears.”
QOoX TIL Leslie Nielsen used to carry a fart noisemaker everywhere he went.
rRR4x TIL of Gino Bartali - champion Italian cyclist. During WWII, he cycled through Italy carrying messages for the Italian Resistance. He even smuggled Jews in a wagon with a secret compartment telling people it was part of his training.