Fruit flies can hold false memories

TIL the plan for organising Winston Churchill’s funeral began 12 years before his death, such was the logistics involved. However, the plan had to keep being changed, as Churchill kept outliving his p

TIL that Charondas, a Greek lawmaker, issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Athenian Assembly would be executed. When 1 day after hunting, he arrived at the Assembly with his knife sti

TIL New Yorkers leave over $100 million a year in unclaimed 5 cent bottle deposits ($139 million in 2021). Until 2009 the beer and soda distributors kept every cent of it. The state now takes 80% and