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TIL that common fruit fly females prefer to mate with their own brothers over unrelated males

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neaA7 TIL that in 1963, a White civil right activist named William Lewis Moore protested segregation by walking 400 miles,alone, from Tennessee to Mississippi to deliver his own letter to the governor, urging him to accept integration. 2 days after starting, he was found murdered in the side of a highway.
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oBDOK TIL that on multiple occassions, scientists have in fact compared apples and oranges, and according to one study performed at the NASA Ames Research Center in 1995 they have been found to be "remarkably similar".
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