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TIL the sole difference between a honey bee worker and a queen bee is in nourishment during the maturation process. Queen bees get feed royal jelly their entire life while worker bees only get royal jelly the first two days of their larval stage.

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XX4E TIL to find interstellar life, one of the things astronomers look out for is a Dyson Sphere, a power plant which harnesses the power of its solar system’s sun by surrounding it with solar panels. It is theorized to be a logical necessity for a spacefaring civilization to sustain intergalactic travel
wLkBP TIL that France granted the US permanent, rent-free possession of the American cemetery in Normandy, which contains the remains of 9,387 fallen troops plus a memorial to 1,557 killed there whose remains were either not found or not identified.
O9Ba TIL Field Marshall Montgomery once made a bet with Walter Bedell Smith that is if he could capture the city of Sfax by April 1943 he would receive a B17 bomber. When Monty completed his half of the bet, Smith backed out: The matter escalated all the way to Eisenhower who ensured Monty got his B17.
v1Rr8 TIL UK prop designer Andrew Ainsworth, who made the original Stormtrooper helmets, was sued by Lucasfilm for $20m for making and selling replicas, who argued he did not hold the intellectual property rights, a point upheld by a US court. After spending £700,000 defending himself, Ainsworth won.
Yeyr TIL that in Pulp Fiction, Mia and Vincent don’t actually win the dance contest. We see them return with the trophy, but you can hear a news story on a TV Butch passes later describing that the trophy was stolen the night before from Jackrabbit Slim’s.