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TIL There is a parasitic worm in grasshoppers that after growing to maturity, makes the grasshoppers seek water and drown themselves to return the parasite to water

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OoBP4 TIL about Dana Lewis, who has diabetes built her own artificial pancreas, she used social media, computer skills and mail-ordered parts to invent an artificial pancreas for people with diabetes and she is giving away the plans for free
4XYwb TIL of "Millionaire Secretaries", those who started with early fledgling internet companies and were usually given stock options in lieu of higher salaries, often leading to riches after IPOs. Dozens of companies boasted such secretaries in the late 1990s.
1AO7 TIL in 1998, a splinter group of the IRA called in a bomb threat for the courthouse hill in Omagh, N. Ireland. The police evacuated people 400m to the bottom of the hill where it was thought to be safe, however, this spot was the REAL location of the bomb; 29 people died, 220 were injured.
KY6J6 TIL The ancient Bowthorpe Oak, near Bourne in Lincolnshire, has a hollow trunk and a gigantic girth of about 44ft (13.4m).
maEP TIL that on a $500 bet, the first words of the third man on the moon (who was somewhat shorter than Neil Armstrong) were “Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.”