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TIL there's a train station in Paris named after Rosa Parks

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EEEx TIL once the Queen is deemed unfit to serve due to old age or disease, worker bees cluster tightly around her body until she dies from overheating, a process known as “cuddle death.”
AvAo TIL: The CIA is supposed to release the JFK assassination records to the public no later than 10/26/2017
Wkpr8 TIL the first generation of stars in the Universe were all several thousand times more massive than the Sun and were made of hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium. All the heavier chemical elements were formed within their cores. One of these stars was observed for the first time in 2015.
yQdvp TIL: Aggression/aggressive behavior is stable over time, meaning if someone is aggressive at 5 years old they will be aggressive at 15 years old, 25 years old, 40 years old etc (without intervention)
KOMRJ TIL by 1580, a syphilis outbreak in Europe left most people bald. A surge of wig making sparked the trend of powdered wigs which lasted for almost 200 years.