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TIL When Ed Sheeran won a Grammy in 2013 for "The A Team" he wasn't deemed famous enough to perform alone so Elton John insisted on a duet with him.

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QJ80e TIL a chemical compound was found to make human "invisible" to mosquitoes, instead of repelling them
x66Qk TIL Gunslinger effect, The quantum physicist Niels Bohr deducted that in a gun dual, the person who draws first loses.
d8l0B TIL that Ostracism, intentionally excluding people, is derived from the Ancient Greek practice of temporarily expelling citizens they thought were a threat to society. Voters would scratch the name of the person to be expelled on broken pieces of pottery, called in Ancient Greek, "ostrakon."
d8X6j TIL that Mr. Homn, the Lurch-like attendant of Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by Carel Struycken - the actor who portayed Lurch in The Addams Family
r64w TIL of Bile Bears which are cruelly “milked” for their liver bile regularly, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine. The bears are stored in cages so small that the bears are unable to turn around or stand for up to 30 years. Most bears eventually die from malignant tumours or starvation.