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TIL it’s considered belittling and insulting to refer to Ukraine as “The” Ukraine.

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5Y6mB TIL fruit flies lay 500 eggs at a time on the fruit in your kitchen. By reusing wine corks in your fruit bowl, they absorb moisture from the ripening fruit and put off a fragrance that repel the pesky bugs.
GYPGE TIL that there is a second Bethlehem of Galilee, a small town just a few miles west of Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph lived. An antiquities biblical archeologist proposes that this is the true birthplace of Jesus rather than Bethlehem of Judea, more than 70 miles away, south of Jerusalem.
epNm5 TIL American-Iranian author F.Esfandiary, who identified as a "transhumanist" changed his name to FM-2030 to reflect his belief that he'd live to be 100 years old. He was convinced that by 2030, technology would make everyone ageless and immortal. He was the first person to be vitrified after death
WkyM4 TIL that as a child, Michael Jackson's father would torment him about his appearance, calling him 'fat-nose'. Michael went on to have four rhinoplasties and fussed over how his body and face looked for the rest of his life.
BElr TIL Cats have a very small prefrontal cortex, making them rather impulsive creatures.