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TIL Paper Wasps can learn and recognize faces of other Paper Wasps, making them one of the few lifeforms with the ability of facial recognition.

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YpXJP TIL: Astronaut groupies in Florida were nicknamed "Cape Cookies". Infidelity was rife; wives had to maintain a perfect facade. Only 7/30 astro-marriages in the 60s survived. Alan Shepherd (first american in space), Pete Conrad (3rd man on the moon) and Dick Gordon (Apollo 12) formed the Go-Go crew.
R694 TIL in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States.
LkmWp TIL that the World Rubik's Cube Championships, was first held in 1982, won by American, Minh Thai in 22.95 seconds. Germany’s Philipp Weyer won in 2019 with a time of 6.74 seconds
GYvY7 TIL that Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Led Zeppelin each contributed £20,000 to help fund Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
KYdj6 TIL in 2008 Universal Studios had a vault fire that destroyed around 50,000 digital film archive and between 118000 and 175000 audio master tapes. Artist affected include Duke Ellington, Tupac and the Banana Splits