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TIL cicada wings shed water, dirt, and bacteria and are anti-reflective to avoid detection by predators using nanopillars 4000x thinner than human hair and waxy substances

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xVXGB TIL Pollution from 1 container ship = 50 million cars. 15 ships = total global car emissions
e0am6 TIL Tabasco Sauce is fermented for three years in used Jack Daniel's Whiskey barrels before bottling.
EgdbV TIL Catherine Dior, youngest sister of Christian Dior, was in the French resistance in WW2. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was tortured and sent to both Ravensbruck and Buchenwald concentration camps, surviving both. Diors first perfume, Miss Dior, was named after her.
16krP TIL about Grigori Perelman, who was the mathematician who solved the Poincaré Conjecture and refused any of the prizes that followed
JYvj8 TIL of Afrihili, a constructed language designed in 1970 by Ghanaian historian K. A. Kumi Attobrah (Kumi Atɔbra) to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa