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TIL when two yeast move toward each other to have sex it's called shmoo

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dDLOr TIL In the 1980s, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds acquired the major food companies Kraft, General Foods and Nabisco, allowing tobacco firms to dominate America’s food supply and reap billions in sales from popular brands such as Oreo cookies, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and Lunchables
R7amw TIL that because of a misunderstanding over the phrase "Cover me!", US Marines (working with the LAPD) shot over 200 bullets into a house while attending to a domestic dispute during the L.A riots in 1992.
EP90 TIL that a calculator and a radio can be taped together to make a metal detector that really works!
YMjx TIL Britney Spears songs are used to scare off pirates in Somalia
0wyBR TIL that bougainvillea flowers are not those (usually) pink parts of this beautiful plant