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TIL bioluminescence in lightning bugs is nearly 100% efficient.

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R5rZa TIL that the original Apollo mission was concerned about losing the astronauts and capsule to quicksand on the Moon
k0Yg TIL that Doritos could be made without powder and taste exactly the same. It was left on because it was decided that the residue left on your fingers was part of the “Doritos experience”.
gr6Ry TIL that most of the 100,000 French soldiers evacuated at Dunkirk were quickly sent back to France. About half of them ended up redeployed against the Germans before the French surrender, and many were subsequently killed or captured.
97vp TIL There exists a giant cloud of alcohol in outer space which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
9w5nQ TIL that a gravity hills is a place with an optical illusion that makes a slight downhill slope look like an uphill slope, causing cars left out of gear to appear to roll uphill against gravity.