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TIL that the ozone layer is healing and a full recovery is expected by year 2050-2060

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oM67 TIL Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to fly in an airplane and afterwards told the pilot, “that was the bulliest experience I ever had. I envy your professional conquest of space.”
5Y7er TIL Bee's deposit a small positive electric charge on each flower they visit. They also posses "Electroreception" which allows them to detect the presence of electric fields on flowers. They use this info to know if a flower has been recently visited by another bee and therefore has less nectar.
bGZQ TIL payment company Square starts off every week with a company-wide morale check, asking employees “How do we feel” and “What are we not talking about,” and then shares the answers in a Google Doc for all to see
WkGrX TIL that various species of venomous viperid snakes (AKA rattlesnake) are native to different regions of the Americas, from Canada down to Argentina
EdBw TIL when Liam Neeson read the script for Taken, he thought the movie would go straight to DVD.