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TIL Male Fruit Flies Sexually Harass Females Until they Can’t Reproduce

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KBBB TIL that not only do microwave ovens not “cook out” nutrients in food, they can sometimes do a better job of preserving nutrients.
BrNBr TIL Saddam Hussein purchased 4,000 PlayStation 2s in attempt to create a military supercomputer.
6E00l TIL the Sovient Union developed a nuclear weapon so power that not even they were willing to test it at full capacity. The Tsar Bomba was the largest nuclear bomb ever tested in the earth's atmosphere, having a mushroom cloud spanning over 40 miles (64km) and a yield of 57 million tons of TNT.
NXmXE TIL Dial soap at one point owned both Premier Cruises and Greyhound bus lines
OoAbg TIL that Davinder Singh of New Delhi, India broke a Guinness World Record in 2017 for typing fast with his nose, managing to type a 17-word English sentence in just over 40 seconds.