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TIL Fruit flies are considered model organisms to understand human alcoholism. Also, after extensive binge drinking males are known to engage in homosexual behavior

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Rypj TIL that after 9/11, The Queen broke ancient protocol and ordered the Royal Guards to play the national anthem of the USA, Star Spangled Banner, in memory of the victims and in support of the Americans trapped in the UK due to airport closures.
epxyL TIL: The US government owns 1.4 billion pounds of cheese storaged hundreds of feet below ground in converted limestone mines in Missouri.
X0G5P TIL about the Bradley Effect, where a people will say they support a candidate to avoid looking prejudiced
rNEjM TIL that in 1953 "Atomic Annie" a nuclear-capable artillery piece, shot the first and only nuclear artillery shell from a cannon.
xVVQb TIL a Tokyo national garden employee let in about 160,000 foreigners for free because he was afraid of charging them the entry fee