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TIL The source of the term "green room" has been lost to history.

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yQPop TIL that the jeweled cockroach wasp injects a venom into a cockroache’s brain to make it lose its escape reflex, the roach then willingly follows the wasp to its nest, where the wasp lays an egg onto the roaches chest that will subsequently eat the weak-willed roach alive until a new wasp hatches.
DpRV TIL Roughly half, or more, of every iPhone 5 sale is profit
nWleG TIL Scotland's national motto is essentially "F#ck around and find out."
mxrXy TIL that 2 months and a day after the 9/11 attacks, a passenger jet crashed in NYC and killed 265 people.
v1dgK TIL fuel tankers are pretty sophisticated. Baffles in the tank to evenly dissipate the force of liquid moving when the truck is accelerating or braking. Without baffles, the liquid keeps moving forward to surge and push against the front wall of the tank, increasing risk of rollover.