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TIL that every month, since 1983, every member of Congress has received a complimentary copy of Hustler Magazine, a pornographic publication, as a form of protest by the mag.

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vPXbr TIL that Apocephalus borealis, a parasitoid fly also known as the "zombie fly", lays its eggs in honeybees, bumblebees and paper wasps; the hosts - sometimes referred to as "zombees" - show behavioral changes of unclear purpose.
JY5OB TIL that the highest-grossing film ever released in the Soviet Union was a Mexican melodrama called "Yesenia"
ep6Nn TIL The movie Amelie is a story about a KGB spy (Amelie Poulain). The director released a video to explain that side of the story.
mZ1R TIL the CEO of food for the poor is named Robin Mahfood.
MeVeW TIL when Gandhi's wife was stricken with pneumonia, doctors told her husband that a shot of penicillin would heal her, he refused to have "alien" medicine used and she died. Soon after, Gandhi caught malaria and, relenting from the standard applied to his wife, allowed doctors to save his life.