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TIL: The Oldest Grocery Store in the Americas is in Quebec City

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P1YPJ TIL that the blow-fly of East and Central Africa, commonly infects humans by laying its eggs on wet clothes, left out to dry and a good way to prevent the transfer to a person's skin, is to iron all clothes including underwear, which kills the eggs/larvae.
NNwM TIL there’s a direct correlation between sales of Moleskine notebooks and proximity to an Apple store
78p5L TIL that all (northern hemisphere) thoroughbred horses celebrate their birthday on Jan 1st.
vwl4 TIL Spring gets 30 seconds shorter every year due to a wobble in the Earth’s axis. Astronomer L. Gerstman: “The shift in the time of the vernal equinox becomes more apparent. Spring will be shortest in the year 8680, (88.5 days), or 4 days shorter than this year’s.” After that it will lengthen again
rRQR4 TIL Quantum computers can solve problems that are impossible or would take a traditional computer an impractical amount of time (a billion years) to solve by qubits which have a third state called “superposition”, in addition to 1 and 0 that allows them to represent a one or a zero at the same time.