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TIL that NYC trash collectors refer to maggots as "disco rice":

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7mxx TIL: The Cuckoo Bumblebee has lost the ability to collect pollen and to rear their brood. Once a female has infiltrated a host colony, she will kill/subdue the queen of that colony and forcibly “enslave” the workers of that colony to feed her and her developing young.
8pDP TIL a duel between three people is called a truel
PYZmE TIL about Vickrey auction, a type of sealed-bid auction. Bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of the other people in the auction. The highest bidder wins, but the price paid is the second-highest bid. This was first described academically by Nobel winner William Vickrey in 1961.
R5797 TIL in 1956, a U-2 spy plane had an engine flameout over western Tennessee and was able to glide over 300 miles to land in Albuquerque New Mexico. Story on Page 90 of the PDF.
dj1Q TIL Tim Hawking added swear words to his dad’s voice synthesizer as a prank