Post * m1Gox — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a plane that flies above Los Angeles every single day releasing tens of thousands of sterile fruit flies to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly.

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dD0Yj TIL the Isles of Scilly Football League is the smallest football league in the world. There are only two teams, the Garrison Gunners and the Woolpack Wanderers. They play 18 times, usually on Sundays, throughout the winter.

9oVG TIL that two scientists, fed up with spam-like emails from a certain conference, submitted a research paper that consisted of only the phrase “get me off your fucking email list”. The paper was later accepted for publication by the Journal of Advanced Computer Technology.

60MX TIL that homeless children in Miami in the 1990s developed an elaborate folk mythology that was spread by oral tradition.

R7B16 TIL that Texas and Louisiana have ERA provisions in their state constitution, while New York, Minnesota and Vermont do not.

rN40d TIL that a heavily Christianized version of Buddha’s story was immensely popular in Europe in the 11th century as the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat; although British became first aware of Buddhism’s existence as a religion only in the 19th century.