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TIL that mosquitoes (and many other bugs) have a much higher tolerance for alcohol than humans.

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oP5L TIL GZA of Wu-Tang Clan is working on an album to teach science through Hip Hop. Oh yeah, Neil deGrasse Tyson is helping out.
evk6 TIL the the name ‘Hotmail’ was chosen as a homage to 'HTML’.
R5pa7 TIL that in the event that the moon landing failed and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin where stranded, NASA planned to end communication with the men, leaving them to either run out of oxygen or commit suicide with no further earthly contact
7agO TIL women can use PMS as a defense in the court
64DQ TIL there is a waterfall called The Devil’s Kettle, a mystery to scientists because the western half of the water flows into a pothole. However, every attempt to trace the path of this half of the river once the water has gone into the pothole has failed.