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TIL Florida to release genetically modified mosquitoes to prevent diseases like Zika

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69QlY TIL pistachios are not nuts? They look like them but they were not botanically classified as such.
Ller TIL that during King’s March on Washington, the DOJ had appointed a person to sit next to the sound system, and in the event of a riot, to pull the sound and play a record of Mahalia Jackson’s “He’s got the Whole World in his Hands” to placate the crowd.
GLNJ TIL after undefeated boxer Billy Collins, Jr. was beaten so badly during his fight, his curious father insisted on shaking his opponent’s hands. He discovered the fighter had removed all his padding, and eventually led to a 2.5 year prison sentence.
jn1v TIL that Pluto didn’t get to make one whole orbit of the sun in the time between its discovery and demotion.
MVxV TIL abundant suicide in teenage girls was thought to be directly caused by lack of early marriage (in other words “sex”) and that a man’s penis kept her healthy