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TIL that scientists once gave drugs to bees, and found that they respond similarly to humans: bees on cocaine tend to overestimate the amount of sugar they find and exaggerate when reporting back to the hive.

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0XXN TIL Tommie Smith and John Carlos the athletes responsible for the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute were pallbearers at Peter Normans funeral. Norman was the white athlete on the podium with them at the time.
GKjQ TIL Microsoft has created 3 billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires.
vvxj TIL the mother of a 9-week-old child that went missing in 1980 insisted that a dingo took her baby. Six years after being convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, the child’s jacket was found in a dingo lair. In 2012, it was officially ruled that a dingo had taken and killed the child.
wLlw1 TIL In 1965, the Welsh village Capel Celyn and surrounding farms were flooded in order to make a reservoir to provide water for Liverpool despite protests from the locals and the Welsh Members of Parliament.
GLvg TIL that over time a white dwarf will cool into a black dwarf. Given the length of time it takes for this to happen (10s-100s of billion years) and our Universes’s age (~13.8 billion years old), none are expected to exist yet