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TIL that honey bees are not endangered

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l6JB TIL the phrase ‘Politically Correct’ was coined by Mao Zedong.
KOlGa TIL that the skin of arctic tribes people are dark because they get all their vitamin D from fish instead of sunlight. Their skin does not need to lighten to try and get more sun for vitamin D production.
ornr TIL that Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew
4KY6 TIL that bonobos, while sharing 99% of our DNA, are wildly homosexual and have sex for nearly any reason. Anything that arouses the interest of more than one at a time tends to result in sexual contact.
xRLb TIL that after 9/11, a commuter train station in New Jersey made chalk marks on the tires of unclaimed cars in the station parking lot to help identify the missing