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TIL in response to the Parents Television Council voting various episodes of Family Guy as the “Worst TV Show of the Week”, creator Seth MacFarlane responded by saying “They can all suck my dick as far as I’m concerned.”

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XErm8 TIL about Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky a Russian photographer who traveled the Russian Empire from around 1909 to 1915, and would take 3 individual black-and-white photos, each with a filter (red, blue, and green) to create high-quality pictures in full color way before full color images were available.
wL1R1 TIL That temperature can be used to identify poor or affluent neighbourhoods in cities. This is because trees increase the "albedo" of a district by absorbing/reflecting heat radiation, whilst poorer districts tend to have less trees in public and private spaces than posher areas.
VMwJB TIL about a theory on human’s relationship with mind-altering-substances like the DMT. It asserts that in order for our body to even be able to interact with some of these chemical compounds, our genetics must have been interacting with them for a really long time.
9w7jX TIL that Toronto, with a tree canopy rivaling the world’s largest cities, has over 22,000 fruit-bearing street trees, including cherries, apples, pears, plum, and the most common hackberry! There’s even a map showing when and where these trees ripen each month.
nnKG TIL microbiologists have “resurrected” 3-billion-year-old ancestors of proteins that enable today’s antibiotic-resistant bacteria to shrug off huge doses of penicillins and other drugs