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TIL Neil DeGrasse Tyson will be hosting an updated version of The Cosmos on Fox in 2013.

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7rVKr TIL about the halfway to hell club. It was an exclusive club formed by men who, while constructing the Golden Gate Bridge, fell from it but were saved by it's safety nets.
Wk9DA TIL in 2008, Anthony Curcio robbed a Brinks armoured car outside of a Bank of America branch, escaped across a hand-dredged creek behind the bank in an inner tube on a pulley system while 15-20 decoys he had hired dressed exactly the same as him covered his escape.
dDwm8 TIL Osedax worms use acid to bore into shark and whale bones and teeth once they are shed or in carcasses, and rely on symbiotic bacteria to release nutrients the worms can absorb. The females reproduce continuously. 100s of dwarf males live inside a female's surrounding tube.
5YbQD TIL that the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" set a Guinness World Records record title for most swearing in one film. Saying the f-word 506 times with an average of 2.81 times per minute.
dpJ8 TIL Peyton Manning is number 18 on honor of his brother Cooper, who had to retire in high school due to a spinal injury. His brother, Eli later went on to be the starting quarterback at the same high school, as number 18