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TIL Mother Teresa tried to baptize dying people without telling them and found the suffering of poor people as beautiful

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WkeWA TIL that bees can't see red. What we perceive as the colour red is seen as black by bees. However, they can see ultraviolet. UV allows them to see vein like patterns in a flower, like a map which allows them to locate the nectar treasure.
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