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TIL that dense swarms of bees can generate atmospheric electric fields as strong as those in thunderstorms, created by the bees’ collective movement and wing flapping.

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4X0E6 TIL The US Navy submarines started using Xbox 360 controllers back in 2017 to control their periscopes
W8lL TIL that during a siege, the Mongols catapulted corpses that were infected with the plague over the city walls to infect the inhabitants.
pYGgQ TIL that Robert Oppenheimer's Interim Committee advised the American government not to warn Hiroshima's civilians of the impending atomic bomb. He was nervous that the bomb may not detonate properly, and also felt that a lack of warning would create a greater panic among Japanese leadership.
4XJg TIL George Takei wants Star Wars and Star Trek fans to come together and fight the Twilight menace.
wLZvE TIL that in 1999, 40 million people suddenly lost power in the Philippines, igniting fears of a possible military coup, only to find out that the cooling pipes of one power grid had sucked up 50 dump truck’s worth of jellyfish which caused the outage.