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TIL Chicken wings used to be discarded as waste, but a creative restaurant owner out of food barbecued and served them in ‘64, creating buffalo wings. Named after the city, not the animal.

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mxv8o TIL that 300 million years ago insects could get really big. Millipedes and centipedes could get larger than humans, dragonflies as big as eagles, beatles the size of a large dog.The leading theory is that ancient bugs got big because they benefited from a surplus of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere.
R7Oe4 TIL the words "female" and "male" are etymologically unrelated. "Male" is derived indirectly from the Latin "masculus" meaning masculine, and "female" is derived from the Medieval Latin "femella".
oRW0K TIL: The number of US Representatives used to increase every 10 years. The last increase was in 1910 to 435 representatives. There would be over 1000 representatives today if the increase continued
4XMAg TIL that introverts tend to have larger, thicker gray matter in their prefrontal cortex — a region of the brain that is linked to abstract thought and decision-making — while extroverts have less gray matter (2012 study by Randy Buckner of Harvard University)
wLdBP TIL Andreas Mihavecz is an Austrian who was taken into custody and forgotten in his cell for 18 days by policemen. He lost 24 kg (53 pounds) and holds the record of surviving the longest without any food or liquids.