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TIL that fireflies are actually beatles.

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QmyE TIL many Japanese still use clam-shell flip-phones, which “are called Galápagos phones because they evolved perfectly for an isolated environment.” The flip-phones are advanced enough & come with features locked into a Japan-only ecosystem that many customers are slow to adopt smartphones.
lojx5 TIL after the Manchester Bombing in 2017, the Manchester Police stopped sharing information with the US after they leaked confidential information to news medias. New York Times published photographs of the bomb used and refused to apologize after the leaks.
yvD8 TIL during the middle ages there was a legal category called “enbrotherment” that allowed two men to share living quarters, pool their resources, and effectively live as a married couple. The couple shared “one bread, one wine, one purse.”
QJBN6 Today I learned that Carly Simon sang the chorus to ‘Kissing with Confidence’ from 1983 by Will Powers.
VBXJQ TIL back in 1945, a physicist at Kodak in Rochester discovered the secret Manhattan project atomic testing 2000 miles away in New Mexico due to straw containing traces of Cerium-141. The straw was sourced from milling plants in Indiana and Iowa that was used to make the film packaging.