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TIL In Himalaya are found the world’s largest honey bees, and they make hallucinogenic honey.

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vekD TIL the Super Mario Bros. movie directors were so disliked by the studio and actors that they locked them out of the editing room when filming finished
n7Y TIL moths may use a technique of celestial navigation called transverse orientation to navigate while flying, but when they encounter much closer light, the angle changes noticeably after only a short distance, resulting in a spiral flight path that gets closer and closer to the light source.
N7bM8 TIL between 1956 and 1972 Goodyear worked on an inflatable rescue plane for the US military. Despite being fully airworthy, the project was abandoned when the military didn't order such planes.
goK7 TIL in 1971, a woman petitioned a Judge for permission to sterilize her “somewhat retarded” daughter. Without a hearing, evidence, or representation for the daughter, the judge granted permission. The daughter later tried to sue the judge, but the Supreme Court voted 5-3 to grant the judge immunity.
p8mdp TIL there are about 2,200 miles of navigable canals in the United Kingdom requiring many tiny locks to be manually operated and many of them no wider than 7 feet (2.1m). Started for use as commercial transport in the early 19th century it has now turned into a leisure highway of "narrowboats."