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TIL Iran has the highest number of US college alums serving in any foreign government cabinet.

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vP6Vj Today I Learned that male Spiders eat females too.
4yJ5 TIL That Kevin Spacey’s older brother is Idaho’s number one Rod Stewart impersonator and limo driver
Y7JeW TIL: 9 days before the start of production of Jaws, neither Quint nor Hooper had been cast. The role of Quint was originally offered to two other actors, both of whom passed. Robert Shaw was reluctant to take the role since he did not like the book but decided to accept at the urging of his wife.
OoAbg TIL that Davinder Singh of New Delhi, India broke a Guinness World Record in 2017 for typing fast with his nose, managing to type a 17-word English sentence in just over 40 seconds.
oBRVL Kenny Broad, a National Geographic emerging explorer and environmental anthropologist, explains how he sometimes smells the characteristic rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulfide gas when scuba diving in blue holes—even while wearing a mask and regulator.