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Til a parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, is killing bees and untreated hives are typically dead within 2-3 years

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Xynk TIL that the last WW2 POW to be repatriated was a Hungarian soldier who sat in a Russian mental hospital for 53 years before a linguist realized that he wasn’t actually talking gibberish
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