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TIL queen bees continues to mate until she collects more than 70 million sperm from multiple males.

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RY41 TIL During WW2 the British had a plan to assassinate Hitler but didn’t go through with it as he was a terrible strategist and whoever replaced him would have been better at fighting the allies
4XnRR TIL Ray Lewis grew up using a deck of cards to do push ups and sit ups. If he drew a 7 he would do 7. An ace was 25 and a Joker 30. He would go through the whole deck. In the nfl, he would do it 3 times for each exercise. Also the reason he wore 52 was because of the number of cards in the deck
GYx4G TIL that people who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to have bigger appetites due to the fact that their leptin levels (leptin is an appetite-regulating hormone) fall, promoting appetite increase.
1rV TIL ITT Corporation backed coups with the CIA in Brazil and Chile to keep their phone companies from being nationalized by the governments in power.
r8Gx TIL the box-office mega-flop “Battlefield Earth” was co-produced by John Travolta (a Scientologist and the film’s villain) and based on an L. Ron Hubbard book. Its production company was convicted of fraud and went bankrupt.