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TIL Bees don't have lungs.

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6EJ4m TIL that the "short" in shortcrust pastry refers to how the fats in the dough stop the flour from forming long gluten proteins in any direction; puff pastry has glutens in layers between layers of fat, like lasagne sheets. Overwork it, and glutens are formed in all directions, making it tough!
4XAgg TIL about the 761st Tank Battalion, an all African American unit was considered "one of most effective tank battalions in World War II", and that baseball legend Jackie Robinson had been a member prior to the unit shipping overseas.
rRLjw TIL-"Sell or Starve" Act of 1877. After defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Congress attached, what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider, to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 that cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the US
0d6Bj TIL there is an abandoned 3.5km (2.2 mi) underground airbase in Croatia, the largest military project of the former Yugoslavia.
5VJlp TIL Potatoes were only introduced into Europe in the late 16th century, and are believed to have originated in the Andes region of South America, which includes parts of present-day Peru and Bolivia.