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TIL Fruit flies drink alcohol when they are sexually frustrated.

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b410 TIL the military refers to every time zone using a letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet. Therefore, in Honolulu, it is always “Whiskey time”.
9wy5X TIL that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria posed as a mummy, for fun, in an early face-in-hole (=Photo stand in) tourist attraction in Cairo, 1894.
v1DGR TIL that George Washington ordered the entire Continental Army inoculated against smallpox despite popular resistance to the practice
5YbJP TIL about Paradoxical Undressing, a rare symptom of hypothermia where the patient undresses due to vasoconstriction tricking him into thinking that he is hot.
nK79 TIL Belgian Colonists cut the hands of children if villages did not meet Rubber Quotas in Congo