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TIL that parasitic isopods change sex like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park but in reverse.

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kZee TIL in 2005 the Powerball drawing produced 110 2nd-prize winners. The Multi-State Lottery Association thought it was fraud. It turned out the winners simply played the lucky numbers from their Wonton Food fortune cookies. The fortune read “All the preparation you’ve done will finally be paying off.”
P1LYg TIL when the Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, the bill was given the identifier "H.R. 1776."
bJrj TIL that Vodka was originally invented in Poland, first produced in the 8th century
9YVpr TIL first editon of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” in USA got changed into “Sorcerer’s Stone” instead. Because a scholastic thought that "Philosopher" sounded too archaic for Americans, Rowling later said that she regretted this change
b9QWE TIL Mathematician and computer scientist Grace Hopper identified the first computer bug in 1947. It was a moth stuck inside of a computer.