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TIL Isaac Asimov was such a prolific and wide ranging writer he had work published in all 10 major categories of the Dewey decimal system

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kOPXg TIL in 1937, a man tried to find seats for himself and his wife on the Hindenburg, but there were none available next to each other. They took a plane home instead. Two years later, the man, Martin Goodman, went on to create Marvel Comics.
mXLY TIL there is a clock being built inside of a mountain that is designed to tick for 10,000 years, and play a unique melody that never repeats itself.
Z8ELY TIL Honeybees can learn basic math such as subtraction and addition
0jVp TIL Antarctica has a fire department. It’s needed because Antarctica is dry, windy, not much water to put out a fire, and death for people without shelter.
DKXY TIL that when male honey bees mate, their penises explode and they die. During the queen’s nuptial flight, she’ll mate with about a dozen partners and leave a trail of dead, penisless bees in her wake.