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TIL that a financial advisor in California suspected that a colleague was ejaculating in her drink bottle after noticing a strange taste, and had her boyfriend ejaculate into a water bottle to confirm her suspicions. The colleague was fired and charged with assault.

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D1n6J TIL the animatronic whales used in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" were so believable that Paramount Studios got angry letters from people who thought they got dangerously close to real whales to film them.
ynBM TIL that it is optimal for your lithium ion smartphone battery to “top it off” and keep its charge between 40-80%, rather than let it drain to 0% and charge it all the way up.
ZP5o TIL that Diesel therapy is a form of punishment in which prisoners are shackled and then transported for days or weeks. It has been described as “the cruelest aspect of being a federal inmate.”
V4Zm TIL Hugo Weaving said of voicing Megatron in Transformers, “I had no knowledge of it. I didn’t care about it. I didn’t think about it. It was meaningless to me. I never read the script. I just have my lines, and I don’t know what they mean.”
R7YOQ TIL that even though they existed for about 165 million years, only about 700 species of dinosaur have been discovered to date.