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TIL a plant hopper (Issus coleoptratus) is the first species found to have functional biological gears

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e0PKg TIL that when Eric Clapton fell in with George Harrison's then wife (who Clapton would also later go on to marry), he challenged Harrison to a guitar dual to decide who should be with her. Their guitar battle went on for 2 hours.
oyMW TIL there’s an island in the pacific where many of the residents are completely color blind, only able to perceive black and white colors. However, they often take a psychedelic drug which allow them to perceive colored hallucinations.
xDL7 TIL: In 1984, a young boy named Andy Smith wrote a letter to Ronald Reagan asking for federal funds to clean his bedroom after his mother called it a “disaster area.”
8aXNL TIL that a Soviet teenager Zinaida Portnova killed over 100 Nazis by poisoning them, Betrayed and captured, she is said to have shot the Nazi detective who captured her.
e0wjD TIL there's a Korean word for ‘mom’s friend’s son’, a fictional person who is perfect in everything, that moms compare their sons to all the time.