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TIL that rejected fruit flies use alcohol to cope.

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4kN9b TIL that removal of invasive vegetation helps reduce the amount of ticks in an area.
8A5b TIL Michael Crichton is the only person to have had a #1 movie (Jurassic Park), a #1 book (Disclosure) AND a #1 TV show (ER) at the same time
epPOg TIL Cute aggression refers to the overwhelming urge to squeeze, pinch, or bite something extremely cute, typically without any desire to cause harm.
6RVQ TIL that the average age of NASA engineers at the time of Apollo 11 was 28. Nowadays it’s 47
9g8X TIL in 2013, J.K. Rowling secretly released a book under a different name in order to release a book “without hype and expectation.” When she was revealed to be the author, the book surged from 4,709th on Amazon to the 1st best-selling novel.