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TIL of BEEcosystem, a company that let's you install a beehive in your living room to help declining bee populations.

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PY6GV TIL about gympie-gympie, also known as the Suicide Plant. Covered in silica hairs which act like hypodermic needles upon contact, and filled with neurotoxins, simply brushing up against the plant will leave you in excruciating pain for months to years. No treatment is available.
kyAE TIL: Women who live in areas with polluted air are up to twice as likely to have an autistic child than those with cleaner air
8a8kV Today I learned that when the Whittington brothers, of Le Mans 24h fame, bought Road Atlanta (the racetrack with the longest straight at the time in the US) in 1979, they used it to secretly land drug smuggling aircraft under the cover of darkness.
awRMb TIL a man sued PepsiCo, alleging he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can. PepsiCo's defense won by proving that a mouse would dissolve inside the soda in the days after being put in the can.
wrGE TIL A scientific study shows that if you are regularly annoyed by other’s eating noises, you might be a genius. Creative minds cannot filter out noise from the surroundings as much as those who are less creative. Charles Darwin struggled with filtering out noise.