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TIL fruit flies lay 500 eggs at a time on the fruit in your kitchen. By reusing wine corks in your fruit bowl, they absorb moisture from the ripening fruit and put off a fragrance that repel the pesky bugs.

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J1RO1 TIL about the Torino Scale, a tool used to determine the likelihood of an asteroid impact with Earth.
gMDB8 TIL of all the US states and territories, Hawaii has the lowest "highest all-time temperature" at 98°.
K1oB TIL in 2006 Florida voters passed a Constitutional Amendment to raise the percent needed to pass a Constitutional amendment to 60% from 50%. That 2006 amendment passed with 57%, requiring all future amendments to get to 60% to pass.
9YkO7 TIL that when Yuri Gagarin was on the bus to the launch pad, he asked the driver to stop so he could pee. It is now tradition for all astronauts leaving from Russia to unzip their suits and pee on the rear right tire of their bus.
Wkj8N TIL that The Netherlands has such a low crime rate, it imports criminals from other countries such as Norway to fill their jails due to a lack of prisoners.