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TIL Fruit flies drink alcohol when they are sexually frustrated.

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VMrPB TIL that ice pops we’re accidentally created by an eleven year old boy who left soda powder and water outside overnight with its wooden stirrer still in the cup.
N7WW6 TIL that Stephen Hawking used a single cheek muscle to communicate. A sensor attached to his glasses detected these movements which in turn moved a cursor on a screen that utilized predictive text. Much of this text was personalised to Hawking and was based on phrases he had previously used
ne6b7 Today I learned Disney World in Orlando has a Mosquito Surveillance Program.
wonnY TIL that Abraham Lincoln delivered a captivating speech that was so engrossing that reporters in attendance ceased taking notes, resulting in a loss of the speech's content.
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