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TIL: US fireflies are not the same in the west as the east. Eastern male fireflies glow during flight while Western female fireflies glow very faintly while grounded.

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j6XER TIL caffeine enhances physical performance, endurance, muscle strength and power
4Xvm6 TIL that Physicist Ted Taylor was the first person to light a cigarette using a nuclear bomb. During a bomb test in 1952, he used a parabolic mirror to concentrate the light of the blast enough to heat a cigarette suspended from a tiny wire.
AN6R7 TIL New Mexico is the only US state that specifies "USA" on its license plates, so as to avoid confusion with the country Mexico
p8ZmZ TIL of the "Infinite Cat Project", starting in 2003, people have been taking pictures of their cats looking at the previous cat, and so on, and so on...
KOgp9 TIL that the suicide plant, indigenous to Australia, when touched can cause pain for years. The treatment is to expose the skin to hydrochloric acid. And if the plant hairs are broken off during removal, it increases the level of pain.