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

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v1o9D TIL Ida B. Wells won a Pulitzer Prize last year (2020) "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching", 89 years after she died.
gM8eD TIL that manatees were removed from the endangered species list in 2017 after 50 years on the list.
epmV4 TIL about Alexis St. Martin who had a hole in his stomach after getting shot. At the time not much was known about the stomach and digestion so a physician performed experiments on St. Martin e.g. dangling meat through the hole directly into the stomach.
0dm9p TIL when Arnold Schwarzenegger auditioned for the movie Hercules in New York (his film debut), his agent said he had years of "stage" experience, implying theater, when he had only appeared on bodybuilding stages.
d8lRQ TIL that when he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. had a nearly 75% public disapproval rate