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TIL bees can be blue. Xylocopa Caerulea is a naturally blue carpenter bee from Southeast Asia. They are non aggressive and their honey is as thick as peanut butter

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d8XAQ TIL about Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet Naval officer who refused to launch a nuclear torpedo during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, averting all-out nuclear war with the United States
R5Yka TIL Roger Moore quit playing James Bond because he was uncomfortable with the age-gap between himself and his female co-stars, stating they “were young enough to be my granddaughter, and it becomes disgusting.”
4X6LR TIL Theodore Geisel took up the pseudonym Dr. Seuss after being banned from his college humor magazine for drinking gin on campus during Prohibition.
0PDj TIL in 1998 40% of antibiotics in the United States went to livestock. By 2011 that had risen to 80%.
N7y18 TIL: Relative to their size, leaf-blowers are among the most polluting machines ever invented. 1/3 of their fuel is released into the air unburned, as an aerosol; and the amount of pollutants released from running one for 30 minutes is equivalent to that of an F-150 driving from Texas to Alaska.