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TIL that wearing a red shirt will get you more action on online dating sites and will make it easier for you to hitchhike.

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78GV7 TIL that in 2000 Andre Geim won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for levitating a frog using magnets. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene.
agQy TIL that the actress Betty White is, in fact, older than sliced bread.
a8EkM TIL about Inspector Closeau, the world’s only known pink manta ray, first discovered in 2015 in waters off of Australia and named for the detective in the Pink Panther series
kkm5 TIL a family found ~$80million in gold coins left by their father. They took the coins to the mint for authentication, only to have them seized by the US Government. They have yet to receive a cent in compensation.
78A6L TIL about a federal lawsuit filed against Walmart concerning a stainless steel travel mug bought there. After mango juice had been in the mug for around 10 days, in which fermentation happened, a woman removed the top. It propelled into her face causing jaw injuries