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TIL bees are more closely related to ants than to wasps.

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oRgK8 TIL that George Washington died with a net worth of $594.2 million in today’s money, and drew a presidential salary of $25,000 (~$900k today) which was around 2% of the government’s budget at the time.
nWDEo TIL that Jack Karlson, "Democracy Manifest guy" escaped police custody multiple times throughout his life, including; jumping off a train, convincing a fisherman to give him a ride off an island and pretending to be a detective before his trial and just walking out
KVdR TIL The Woman of Seine was the unknown woman whose body was pulled out of the Seine River.A post-mortem pathologist at the morgue was so taken by her beauty that he made a plaster cast death mask of her face.Now that mask is used as the face of the CPR mannequin and is the most kissed face on earth.
9wyQQ TIL that Amazon has a serious problem with counterfeit products, and it's all because of something called "commingled inventory."
Mbd7 TIL that many of those public toilet levers can be pulled up instead of down to save water if you went number 1