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TIL honeybees form a ball around their queen to kill her by overheating her to death if they are no longer able to make offspring, and they do the same to enemy hornets and invading queens who are rejected as a new queen

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WkoGB TIL Nurse Sandra Clarke was making her rounds when a frail patient made a simple request, "will you stay with me." When she returned from her rounds she discovered he died. Sandra became the founder of "No One Dies Alone," a volunteer program that provides dying patients someone to be with them.
wXB7 TIL that during the filming of the film adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 “some scenes were shot on the actual days noted in Winston’s diary (for example: April 4, 1984) as well as at some of the actual locations and settings mentioned in Orwell’s novel.”
rNne4 TIL At its greatest extent, Nixon’s “Enemies List” of political opponents and critics reached 220 people and organizations. Several of the people listed expressed pride at being included after the list was revealed at the Watergate hearings in 1973.
VbKB TIL FOX News fell for a “ruse alleging purchase of $1 billion of jetpacks for LAPD, Fire Department” from the Weekly World News satirical news tabloid in 2010.
nWMP TIL that a set of simple algorithms can give rise to amazingly complex patterns that are able to transform, breed, travel, and create. It’s Conway’s Game of Life, and in principle it is the same way organic molecules work together to create the patterns that are life.