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TIL Female dragonflies fake their own deaths to avoid males harassing them for sex

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O8GR TIL In 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to build a mile-high building (528 stories) in Chicago. The World’s current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa is only ½ a mile high and was inspired by Wright’s design.
mxZWP TIL that Minnesota is the only state that requires any U.S. Flag sold in the state to be manufactured in U.S.A.
wLbA8 TIL: Smallpox inoculation had been practiced in China, India, Turkey, and East and West Africa, starting as early as 1000 AD. The procedure involved exposing a small wound to pus from the sores of an infected person, to cause a limited infection, which would then provide lifelong immunity.
a8dgo TIL the Hip Hop group 95 South released a song called "Whoot, There It Is" a month before Tag Team released their song "Whoomp! There It Is"
dD7nK TIL that british climber Alan Hinkes had to be air rescued from Nanga Parbat in 1997 when flour from a burnt chapati (a type of flatbread) got up his nose, making him sneeze so violently that he prolapsed a disc. He waited 10 days in agony before being rescued and is since known as the "chapati man"