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TIL about the Beech Blight Aphid or the “Boogie-Woogie Aphid" that dances when freighted

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4Plo TIL There’s a 5000 year old undergorund city in Turkey the size of 16 football fields
adr9 TIL The Bornean Bay Cat is one of the rarest wild cats in the world – Only 12 specimens have been studied between the years of 1874 and 2002, and the species was never caught on film until 2009.
N71WE TIL Documentary Filmmaker Brian Fogle accidentally discovered the Russian State Sponsored Doping program while making a movie about how to beat doping tests. The movie is credited with helping start the investigation that ended up blocking Russia from competing at the Olympics since 2017
9w5wD TIL bookworms are a real problem and can cause significant damage to your books
gr1AA TIL "First Man" screenwriter Josh Singer interviewed Neil Armstrong's wife Janet, who died two months before the release of the 2018 movie. Janet's anger during Neil's mission was real, as seen in her outburst to NASA men, "You're just a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood!"