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TIL insects fly into light bulbs because artificial light messes up their sense of direction

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loZE5 TIL the Ivanpah solar plant in the deserts of California released 68,676 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2015
kg84 TIL that a 13-year old boy who fought back against a known bully (who was bigger and older) and accidentally killed him received 12 years in prison.
wgo8 TIL in 2010, a Polish man living in Germany asked doctors to remove what he thought was a several-year old cyst at the back of his head. However, doctors found that the “cyst” was actually a .22-caliber round lodged in his scalp. He didn’t noticed it because he was drunk when it happened 5 years ago
YPv TIL there are twice as many men with an IQ of 120-plus as there are women and there are 30 times the number of men with an IQ of 170-plus as there are women.
BbJy TIL that prior to the income tax being enacted in 1913, the U.S. government got up to 40% of its revenue from alcohol taxes. Without the income tax in place, the Prohibition Amendment would likely not have been proposed by the Senate in 1917.