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TIL Killer bees or Africanized bees were created by humans cross breeding bees in the search for more efficient honey production

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5VVKn TIL the color orange was named after the fruit orange, and not vice versa. Prior to its naming, it was referred to as yellow-red (ġeolurēad).
eb9J TIL: There is an island known as “Just Room Enough Island” that has just enough room for a tree and a house.
l7EW7 TIL Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949-55) was one of the first science fiction TV shows and had a run of 1537 episodes. Only about 20 of the episodes survive today as as the original recordings were dumped in the ocean off the coast of New York.
ADxMd TIL The number of students caught cheating at the UK's top universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) increased by a third in three years. There was a surge in cases of academic misconduct.
d8pBd TIL Myrmica sabuleti, or the Myrmica Ant, is often tricked by a caterpillar species that pretends to be ant larvae. It waits on a thyme leaf until the ants spot it and carry it to their nest, where it then feeds on ant grubs for the next 10 months before emerging as a Large Blue butterfly.