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TIL scientists in China found a way to use genetically modified and infertile male mosquitos to wipe out large populations of mosquitos, pave the way of a mosquito-free future for us ????

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p8rG4 TIL in 2015 a Chinese woman was stopped at an airport in Beijing for having a bottle of Cognac in her carry-on. Instead of handing it over to airport security, she chugged the entire bottle on the spot before taking her plane.
d8gJE TIL that entomologists and English speakers outside of North America call them Ladybirds not ladybugs. The ladybird beetle is not classified as a true bug.
woOgY TIL that the Pop-It bubble popper was originally invented in 1975 by Theo and Ora Coster of Theora Concepts: a married Israeli couple who had invented many games including Guess Who? and Zingo!. Incidentally, Theo was a former classmate of Anne Frank.
nWlAr TIL about Raoul Whitfield, one of the earliest American hardboiled detective fiction writers. Close friends with Dashiell Hammett, he was briefly married to New York socialite Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer and created the character Jo Gar, a Spanish-Filipino detective in Manila.
EgPB0 TIL The flooding was so extreme in Sacramento, California on January 10, 1862 that Leland Stanford needed a rowboat to get from his home to the State Capitol for his inauguration as Governor.