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TIL Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has a gay son

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xeQg TIL that the Mystery Flavor of Dum Dums lollipops is a mixture of two flavors that come together when the end of one batch of candy meets the beginning of the next batch. Thus, the Mystery Flavor continually changes.
BrwZr TIL about the 1958 destruction of Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in southwest British Columbia. It took three years to place over 1,000 tons of explosive in tunnels under the mountain, and it was one of the largest non-nuclear planned explosions on record.
QaM TIL mosquitoes are adapted to ignore side-to-side movement; a resting female permits a finger to approach slowly if the finger moves several centimetres from side to side about once a second. With practice one can use this stratagem to squash resting mosquitoes with high frequency.
rRp5w TIL through the last 90 years of American history there have been only two decades with the GDP increasing every year - the 1960s and the 2010s.
LQXnQ TIL that it takes 90 days for a single drop of water to travel the Mississippi River’s entire length. From its source, Lake Itasca, to its end, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River flows 2340 miles.