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TIL bees are more closely related to ants than to wasps.
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TIL Charles XII of Sweden was embalmed well enough to recognize his features when exhumed 200 years after his death. Photographs show the gunshot wound to his head that killed him.
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TIL that the Rosetta Stone was discovered by 1 of Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops in 1799, during France’s invasion of Egypt
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TIL The term “Vilomah” describes a parent who has lost their child. Vilomah means “against the natural order of things.” Life has its natural order, and in that order, children are supposed to outlive their parents.
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TIL That Steven Spielberg's father Arnold Spielberg, who is still alive at 103, created the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register
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TIL of the Angel of Nanjing; a selfless man who has patrolled the Yangtze River Bridge since 2003, saving people who wish to commit suicide and counselling them back to health, he has saved over 300 lives to this day.