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TIL The Longest Insect Dormancy: Yucca Moth Larvae (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) Metamorphose After 20, 25, and 30 Years in Diapause

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e0Kln TIL Korean college students once protested against the amount of air in potato chip packets by building a raft out of them and sailing across a river.
R5M51 TIL Beginning in early 1942, the Canadian government detained and dispossessed more than 90 percent of Japanese Canadians, some 21,000 people, living in British Columbia. They were detained under the War Measures Act and were interned for the rest of the Second World War.
YpXOv TIL of Fedspeak, described as a 'turgid dialect of English' used by US government officials, notably Alan Greenspan, in order to avoid difficult questions on reports and statements
6EboZ TIL In 1936 John F Kennedy lost his class presidency election at Harvard
x6o01 TIL of "set de flo'", an old African-American type of dance contest in which participants would do specific dance moves inside a circle on the floor; if you step outside the circle, you lose. Sometimes they would balance a glass of water on their head for extra challenge.