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TIL there are terrestrial leeches in the jungles of Asia!

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789Vp TIL that Dolly Parton secretly coproduced Buffy the Vampire Slayer through her company, Sandollar Entertainment. As an easter egg, she and Buffy share the same birthday, which are on January 19.
0wWjL TIL that Russian cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 7 took into space a cassette of Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound Of Thunder, making them the first rock band to be played in space. The cassette was still aboard three years later when Mir burned up on re-entry
eK8n TIL South African Department of Health Distributed 44 million condoms, stapling each one to instruction cards written in the country’s 11 official languages.
P17Dn TIL that the planet's average temperature compared to today was just 6°C (11°F) lower, during the last ice age, and 4°C (7°F) higher, during the age of the dinosaurs. "In climate terms, a change of just a few degrees is a big deal." (Bill Gates, 2021)
5Vv0k TIL WW2 Russian fighter pilot Boris Kovzan scored 4 aerial kills by ramming into German planes. His 4th ram occurred after being shot in the eye while trapped. The head on collision freed him and he fell 20,000ft before landing in a swamp.