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TIL that Quincy Jones was eligible for membership in the Sons of Confederacy Veterans.

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16pAP TIL: of Adam Worth, who fought with the Union in the US Civil war, then went on to a life of crime in Europe, where he earned the nickname “the Napoleon of Crime”, and served as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes’ great nemesis James Moriarity.
R50W6 TIL Japanese beekeepers use the pheromone threat response from wasps to trap them in glue traps to keep their hives safe
GAerN TIL that a single gram of DNA can theoretically store 215 petabytes of data
l7Dpa TIL of the Canal of the Pharaohs, which was the ancient forerunner of the Suez Canal, which was first built sometime in the 7th Century BC and was used until 767 AD.
R57g7 TIL about The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law - an Austro-Hungarian satire party whose platform included mandatory alcoholism and reintroducing the Inquisition