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TIL 40% to 50% of the genetic information found in your GI tract does not match anything that’s ever been classified before–not plant, animal, fungus, virus, or bacteria. We have no clue what it is. Biologists call it “biological dark matter.”

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Brykk TIL that Sue Jones-Davies, who portrayed Judith in Monty Python's Life of Brian, later became Mayor of Aberystwyth. She discovered that the town had banned Life of Brian for thirty years, and her first act was to overturn the ban and stage a screening with Terry Jones and Michael Palin
AaWl TIL A group of writers purposely wrote a terrible novel full of nothing but sex scenes to prove how vulgar American culture had become. It became a bestseller.
R7po9 TIL researchers have measured a 40% drop in college students' empathy since 1979 with a the biggest drops happening since the 2000's
16nKD TIL Former U.S. Army sergeant who worked in military intelligence and carried a top secret security clearance was arrested , charged while trying to pass information to China
j67Qv TIL Anaxagoras was one of the first to assert that the Moon reflected sunlight and did not produce light by itself; a statement translated as “the sun induces the moon with brightness” was found in his writings.