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TIL that when a male fruit fly is sexually rejected by a female fruit fly, it will seek out more alcohol than those that have successfully mated.

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kJek7 TIL of Variety Children's Charity. It was founded by a group of men in show business who found a baby on the steps of a movie theater. After raising money for her they raised money for poor kids. Later on two members founded The Jimmy Fund a pediatric cancer charity that fundraised in movie theaters
e7xn TIL when a German hacker stole the source code for Half Life 2, Gabe Newell tricked him in to thinking Valve wanted to hire him as an “in-house security auditor”. He was given plane tickets to the USA and was to be arrested on arrival by the FBI
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