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TIL Floyd Mayweather Jr. gets two $1000 haircuts per week, with the same barber since 2009

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4X6PR TIL that Rachel Carson, the scientist that discovered DDT's effect on wildlife, was seen as a threat to agricultural business. To discredit her, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture wrote a letter to President Eisenhower arguing that since she was unwed and attractive, she must have been a Communist.
J1mDv TIL that goats have rectangular pupils, which give them a wider field of vision to spot predators.
j6rOE TIL Chuck E. Cheese Pizza was founded by the guy who started Atari and oversaw the creation of Pong
WnW4 TIL during the rap battle montages in 8 Mile, Eminem would mime to save his voice. However after one rapper got a particularly good audience reaction, he turned his mic on and improvised a verse in response rather than let himself be beaten.
6yew TIL Argentine ants have a worldwide mega-colony, and if they get in an airplane and travel to a different continent, they will be welcomed in the foreign branch of the colony