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TIL the mold in blue cheese is Penicillium

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OXpa TIL The very first attempted assassination of a United States president was stopped when then President, Andrew Jackson, beat his assailant brutally with a his cane before being stopped by a nearby congressmen.
0dbmN TIL that bee flies (Bombylius major) lay their eggs near the entrances of solitary bee nests; upon hatching, their larvae enter the nest and feed on the bee larvae.
gMVBD TIL During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, to help USA/USSR relations, astronauts and cosmonauts played smuggled audio recordings of glasses clinking, laughter, and many female voices. Houston radioed to ask what’s going on. "Oh nothing,” they said. “We finished work, just having a party up here."
pYeBG TIL Teflon’s first use was in the Manhattan project.
WkYJL TIL That ice is predicted to change into a metal at pressures above 4.8 TPa (or ~48 million times the Earth’s atmospheric surface pressure). At even more extreme pressures, it could melt into a quantum liquid.