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TIL that fireflies are facing extinction in the United States.

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W48A TIL it is possible to extinguish all the mosquitoes. Scientists recently reported a system that allows them to push the “Nix” gene to such a system it would essentially create a chain reaction spreading the male gene, producing males until eventually the population crashes.
Wxb9 TIL pinball was illegal for over 30 years in America and even had it’s own crime boss who specialized in the illegal pinball machine industry.
KRWE TIL police in west Germany located a man who had a warrant for unpaid fines. They confronted him just as his slot machine struck a jackpot, and he avoided jail time by paying his fine on the spot.
YrZ TIL that during World War Two a German plane landed at a British airfield thinking it was a German one.
Z8kgR TIL that Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, John Cage, Miles Davis, the Everly Brothers, Dave Brubeck, Tony Bennett and Edith Piaf all worked with the same producer - George Avakian - in the 1950s and 1960s.