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TIL: the majority of sold/produced oysters have an extra set of chromosomes making them sterile.

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VBj50 TIL Ohio once misprinted their new license plates showing the Wright Flyer flying backwards. They had to recycle 35000 license plates which were misprinted.
KYV5Q TIL fruit flies were the first living & "sentient" organism sent into space by humans.
gok4 TIL dust / dirt devils are called “djin” meaning “genie” or “devil” in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, and Jordan. This is where the mythical genie came from and why genies are typically depicted without legs.
9wZw7 TIL of Gabe Sonnier, a man who started off as a janitor in a Louisiana elementary school until one day in 1985, when he was inspired by the then-principal to take up teaching. Gabe was 39 years old when he started studying for a teaching degree. He’s now the principal of that elementary school.
W7kjd TIL that two executive mansions were specifically built for the President of the US before the White House. Neither was ever used by a President.