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TIL Fireflies are the most efficient lights in the world. 100% of energy is emitted as light. Fireflies: larvae & eggs glow, talk to each other with light, imitate each other, then eat other fireflies, are on almost every continent, taste bad, are medically and scientifically useful, adults live<1mo

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DyZV TIL of Stanley Meyer who claimed to invent a water fuel cell which would allow cars to be powered by water. In 1998, while dining with 2 supposed investors, Meyer ran outside saying “They poisoned me” and died.
4XAbN TIL of Anthony Mascarenhas, a Pakistani journalist who dared to write the truth about the atrocities committed by Pakistan in Bangladesh in 1971. He flew to UK to ‘visit a sick sister’ and agreed to get it run in the Sunday Times. The story ran the day after he snuck his family out of Pakistan.
woA9J TIL Wagner Dodge escaped the Mann Gulch fire by lighting an "escape fire" in front of him and laying down on the now dead grass so the main fire could not engulf him.
mxMPo TIL that McDonald's chicken nuggets come in 4 shapes: Bowtie, boot, ball, and bell
QNgoE TIL that the Seinfeld episode "The Rye" featured four actors who played these characters in Twin Peaks: Sarah Palmer, Dr. Hayward, Mrs. Tremond, and Emory Battis