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TIL: The Cuckoo Bumblebee has lost the ability to collect pollen and to rear their brood. Once a female has infiltrated a host colony, she will kill/subdue the queen of that colony and forcibly “enslave” the workers of that colony to feed her and her developing young.

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MeEgb TIL at Willamette Falls a hydro-electric facility was built in 1888. It had a 14-mile long line to Portland, becoming the first long-distance transmission of electricity in the US in 1889. A second station was built on the falls in 1895 and is still operating today (Falls: USA 2nd highest flow rate)
Ljvr TIL that beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see when they’re underwater.
ep0L TIL: IG-88, the bounty hunter droid from Star Wars, was built from recycled film props. His head is a Mos Eisley Cantina drink dispenser.
J1yQ1 TIL to find a pianist during the one-day studio recording session of Tom Jones’ hit single ‘It’s not Unusual’ (also of Carlton Dance fame), his drummer Slade (of AC/DC and The Firm Fame) ran across the street to a coffee house and recruited then-unknown Reginald Dwight (now-well-known as Elton John)
d85y7 TIL of a Welsh village Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch named as a publicity stunt in 1869 to give the railway station the longest name in Britain. It means: St Marys Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel Near to the Rapid Whirlpool of Llantysilio of the Red Cave.