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TIL Panama releases up to 50 million flies into the wild every week (in order to reduce the fly population)

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d8no8 TIL the national Do Not Call (DNC) Registry does not include calls being made for the sole purpose of conducting a survey or poll, those calls are exempt.
awNgA TIL Taiwanese author Chen Yingzhen was a supporter of the notion of a unifying Chinese national identity in Taiwan. Chen was "considered by many Chinese readers and critics in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas to be Taiwan's greatest author"
b6GKE TIL about Christiane F., a teen drug addict at the Bahnhof Zoo (Zoo Station), a hotspot for drug trafficking and underage sex work in West Berlin. Her book is widely read in German schools to warn about dangers of drug addiction.
OoWL1 TIL The color purple is a non-spectral color. Meaning it is always a combination of two different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation.
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