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TIL the flesh eating parasite screwworms will lay their eggs in wounds as small as a tick bite

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5Y65D TIL BMW drifted a M5 for 232.5 continuous miles, which included a stuntman refueling the car from a tandem-drifting tanker.
m1Gox TIL there is a plane that flies above Los Angeles every single day releasing tens of thousands of sterile fruit flies to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly.
BgEgb TIL that due to industry influence, Missouri has some of the loosest alcohol laws in the US. Hard liquor can be sold in grocery stores and gas stations; bars can double as liquor stores; public intoxication is legal; and open containers are allowed in most areas, including by passengers in vehicles.
Y7eQv TIL General Mills produced a breakfast cereal that contained an indigestible food colouring, rendering some children's feces pink and forcing General Mills to make a new formula
DQWGv TIL that Congressman Lucas Miller once proposed a failed amendment to change the name of the U.S. to the “United States of Earth”.