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TIL Lenin and Stalin once teamed up to rob a bank.
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TIL that after arresting a man for blowing up an airplane federal agents learned that it was not in fact a federal crime to blow up an airplane. Colorado instead charged the man for the single murder of his mother, a passenger on the plane.
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TIL the sole difference between a honey bee worker and a queen bee is in nourishment during the maturation process. Queen bees get feed royal jelly their entire life while worker bees only get royal jelly the first two days of their larval stage.
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TIL a Cakewalk was originally a competition among African slaves. They'd do a mocking waltz variation popular among elite whites at the time and best couple were rewarded with a cake by their masters. Although the dance itself was difficult, the winners were the ones who made the Cakewalk look easy.
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TIL A sleeping Killer Whale (Orca) pod (approx. 6-30 whales in a pod) breathes in unison - they form a tight circle, then surface for air and re-submerge as one, while sleeping!
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TIL This palliative care paper determined that a stream of air from a bedside fan relieves dying patients of dyspnoea (breathlessness/ shortness of breath) as equally as supplemental O2.