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TIL that Female dragonflies fake a crash-and-die scenario in order to prevent males from harassing them to mate

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R7bGj TIL that Scottish fold cats are banned by the UK's pedigree cat registry because a genetic mutation that make their ears folded and their faces so cute also causes distortion of their limb bone shapes and severe painful arthritis.
ANbOx TIL about the Tunguska Event: In 1908, an 180 foot wide asteroid exploded while entering the Earth's atmosphere in Russia's East Siberian Taiga. It presumably exploded 4 miles above the surface, killing 3 people, and felled 80M trees over an area of 830 sq miles.
P10We TIL Both VISA and SAAB are examples of recursive acronyms, acronyms that refer to themselves. VISA stands for "Visa International Service Association" and SAAB stands for "Saab Automobile AB."
goP7 TIL that Ernest Hemingway survived plane crashes on two consecutive days
o9EY TIL to film the weightless space scenes in the Apollo 13 movie the cast and crew did 612 25-second takes aboard NASA’s zero-gravity plane