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TIL Fruit Flies come from INSIDE your fruit as larvae that hatch and become the fly as the fruit on the counter ripens.

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P1DE TIL there is a bar in NYC that mimics the stock market every night. The real time “drink ticker” allows the price of drinks to go up and down with the demand of certain beverages. You can play the market and get top shelf beverages very cheap when they hit the “bottom of the market”.
bV40 TIL that Boeing plane models are always 7X7 not because of the Lucky number 7 but because the 700 division was in charge of transport aircraft after WWII. They started with 707 and kept the pattern from there.
Rb4 TIL a gun can fire in space because gunpowder contains its own oxidizer.
jB6M TIL in 1913, Argentina was the world’s 10th wealthiest nation per capita, the country’s income per head was on a par with that of France and Germany, and far ahead of Italy or Spain
L87r TIL of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker who, during the Civil War, stood on the Union front lines for nearly two years, including the wake of the bloody Battle of Chickamauga. She is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.