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TIL That E.T. The Extra Terrestrial is from the Asogian species in the Star Wars Universe.

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woMeP TIL that “fire rainbows” are real. They’re called circumhorizontal arcs and happen when sunlight passes through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds—creating vibrant, horizontal bands of color in the sky. I had no idea these existed until today.
7lVb TIL A man once sued Pepsi after trying to buy a Harrier fighter jet with Pepsi Points
bXN7 TIL that Medina, the second-holiest city in Islam (which forbids non-Muslims from entering the core of the city), was primarily inhabited by Jews before the arrival of Mohammad.
nWDbo TIL that all diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob and fatal insomnia, have a perfect 100% mortality rate. There are no cases of survival and these diseases are invariably fatal.
l7Dx7 TIL Males of the brazilian bee species Eufriesea purpurata are attracted to and collect the insecticide DDT, seemingly without any adverse effects. After DDT was used to cull mosquito populations in villages, the bees became a plague on the local indigenous people