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TIL fruit flies were the first living & "sentient" organism sent into space by humans.

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4Xd0o TIL Since 1980 Quebec have restricted unhealthy food and beverage advertising for children under 13. The Heart and Stroke Foundation has advised that, as a result, Quebec households have a lower likelihood to purchase fast food and Quebec youth and children have very low rates of obesity.
neXPb TIL cocaine and nicotine have been found in the hair of ancient Egyptian mummies
d5Y9 TIL that Chinese silent movie actress Ruan Lingyu committed suicide at age 24 partly due to the stress caused by the Shanghai gossip tabloids exposing her private life. Her funeral procession was 3 miles long and three women committed suicide during the event.
WrGB TIL A man lost a legal battle to keep his strip club open, then walked into an in-progress city council meeting and paid court ordered legal fees($6,400), with 4 $100 bills and 1.65 tons of pennies.
PYLne TIL that scientists and historians believe that the same sailors whose story inspired Melville’s Moby Dick also may have caused the extinction of the Floreana Tortoise and the Floreana Mockingbird, species that inhabited Charles Island in the Galapagos.