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TIL in July 1999, four ladybugs and their favorite food, aphids, were sent into space on NASA's Columbia shuttle to research how aphids escaped the ladybugs without the aid of gravity.

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9Ywyp TIL that expiration dates on bottled water is for the bottle and not for the water in it.
ADVBw TIL scientists give funny names to genetically variant fruit flies; (Ken & Barbie): flies that fail to develop external genitalia, (Maggie): Flies that fail to develop past a certain stage & are named after Maggie from the Simpsons, (Cheap Date): A fly that expresses high sensitivity to alcohol.
QNNNk TIL about Yola, a.k.a the "Forth and Bargy dialect", an extinct Anglic language spoken in southern County Wexford until the 1990s.
aj60 TIL when asked if Bert and Ernie were gay, Sesame st CEO Gary Knell replied “They are not gay, they are not straight. They are puppets. They don’t exist below the waist.”
LQWP9 TIL the word candidate comes from the Latin word for white; candidus, because Roman senators wore white togas.