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TIL of Gelae, a genus of small brown beetles found in North and Central America. Notable members include Gelae baen, Gelae rol, Gelae belae and Gelae donut.

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OPv6 TIL that Chipotle spends less on advertising in a year than McDonald’s does in 48 hours.
epBaE TIL while in Harvard University, Dale Maple was removed from the German Club for singing the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" and was dismissed from ROTC for praising dictatorship. During WW2, he helped German POWs to escape, was sentenced to hang and was commuted to 10 years
WkLEY TIL 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness), up from 10-20% 60 years ago
78OwO TIL: The US State Department has a “Dissent Channel” that provides diplomats and other officials a way to formally criticize policy decisions and that it was only established in 1971
berZ TIL that it was Richard Nixon who unilaterally ordered the discontinuation of the United States’ biological and chemical weapons programs.