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

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p8Lj4 TIL that France has a territorial possession in North America less than 15 miles from the coast of Newfoundland. The island has a population of 5,000+ and is similar to mainland Europe.
RNx6 TIL that we’re on the brink of a global wine shortage, patially because China’s consumption of wine has doubled twice in the last five years.
BJde TIL After hearing that Guinness Book of World Records planned to give him the world record for having filed the highest number of lawsuit, Jonathan Lee Riches (a federal prisoner) did what he does best – he sued them.
pBZZ TIL that when Buzz Aldrin, a freemason, landed on the moon, he brought a charter establishing a masonic lodge on the moon under jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Texas
WkobA TIL that the popular spiral depiction of the Milky Way is actually of another galaxy, Messier 74. Since we live in the Milky Way, we can't take a picture of it from the outside.