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TIL that aphids reproduce asexually in the spring and summer (producing only females that are clones of their mothers), but reproduce sexually in the autumn (producing both males and females)

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rRaY1 TIL that more civilians died in the battle of Stalingrad than the nuclear attacks on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
woEWM TIL A study shows pairing giant pandas with a preferred partner increased the probability of intromission success and producing a cub. Of the 25 females mated to a preferred partner, 72% had successful intromission.
KONA4 TIL before Judy Garland landed the role of Dorothy Gale, it was offered to Shirley Temple, and Deanna Durbin. Temple would have played the role if her studio let her out of her contract, and Durbin flat out refused the role.
LbM0 TIL In 2012, a 23-year-old student was left behind in a 5-by-10 holding cell by the DEA and was forced to drink his own urine in order to survive.
PjKV TIL: Instead of donating money to a New York Food Bank, Toyota offered ‘kaizen’; a Japanese word meaning “continuous improvement”. Toyota’s engineers applied kaizen to the soup kitchen, reducing the average wait time from 90 to 18 minutes.