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TIL Biologist Richard Dawkins coined the word 'Meme' in his 1976 book 'The Selfish Gene'

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GMJ5 TIL An Australian beetle almost went extinct because the males couldn’t stop trying to mate with discarded brown beer bottles, thinking they were totally hot female beetles.
0xGy TIL in 1947 there was an explosion in Texas City so large, it instantly killed the entire fire dept, knocked airplanes out of the sky, and people eleven miles away fell down.
99pp TIL on average a bottle of domestic beer in a supermarket is ~333% more expensive in Australia than in Germany.
jyJR TIL that rubbing peanut butter on a stubbed toe acts as a pain killer, due to the oil in the peanuts.
j6QMj TIL that the National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning in 2020 because of a wildfire.