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TIL Profiteering from academic "pay to publish" was fathered by a man known for pension fraud and passed on his labor exploitation skills to the next generation.

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GWMN TIL sleeping in a hammock is actually good for you - and your back! (The Hammock Brainwash)
oBOoR TIL, when disco died out, The Village People tried to remake themselves into a New Wave band. Their new album climbed no higher than 138 on the Billboard 200.
6E7Q8 TIL scientists have been giving MDMA to Octopuses to see what effect it has on their sociability. "At first they used too high a dose, and the animals “freaked out and did all these color changes,”
6989W TIL: of "Raining Blobs in Oakville,"** a phenomenon that occurred in Oakville, Washington, in 1994, where gelatinous blobs fell from the sky. These biomass blobs were at first reported to contain human white blood cells, while this was debunked their origin remains a mystery
14xP TIL the five deadliest animals in Australia are – in order – horses, cows, dogs, kangaroos, and bees.