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TIL about the us support for 1965 indonesia massacre

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ADVBw TIL scientists give funny names to genetically variant fruit flies; (Ken & Barbie): flies that fail to develop external genitalia, (Maggie): Flies that fail to develop past a certain stage & are named after Maggie from the Simpsons, (Cheap Date): A fly that expresses high sensitivity to alcohol.
Gek5 TIL that Boring, Oregon decided, on the suggestion of a Scottish cyclist who was passing through in 2012 on holiday, to pair with Dull, Scotland as a sister city in an effort to promote tourism in both places as a play on their names.
XEV5P TIL Frost quakes exist and I'm not using slang for the popular breakfast cereal.
nWL1B TIL that the song Jeremy by pearl jam was based on actual events
oRyrL TIL that A man named Göran Kropp from Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Mount Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.