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TIL that Ichneumon wasps lay their eggs inside trees where they detect formerly laid and evolved wood wasp larvae. They paralize the other larvae through poison and then lay their single egg on top of it. Scientists are not sure how they find their victims through centimenters of solid tree bark

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OGb6e TIL that in 1927, Lindbergh flew 3,600 miles solo across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis with no radio, no lights, no parachute, not even a windshield. Just a periscope, a map, a wicker chair, and 33.5 sleepless hours in a cockpit that looked more like a steam engine than a plane.
LGgr TIL A man being arrested on the show “COPS” for prostitution charges threatened suing the show if his Chihuahua’s face wasn’t blurred. The man claimed he did not sign a release for the dog who is an actor with an agent.
wonMJ TIL that Ewa Wiśnierska, a German paraglider, was unexpectedly caught in a thunderstorm and pulled up into a cumulonimbus cloud, reaching an altitude of 10,000m (33,000ft). She survived extreme temperatures of -50°C and oxygen deprivation at a height higher than Mount Everest.
9YKn6 TIL Evariste Galois, genius French mathematician, felt certain he would die the next day in a duel he had been challenged to over a woman and stayed up all night solving a problem that had tormented mathematicians for centuries. He died the next day at 21 but his work that night endures still today.
78O4Z TIL Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, designer of the de Havilland Mosquito, was actress Dame Olivia de Havilland’s cousin.