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TIL Due to North Carolinian farmers switching from growing tobacco and cotton to growing soybeans and corn, Black Bears of the area are getting fat from all the extra food sources.

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4X9w5 People like to imagine that they’re the pinnacle of evolution, but the animal kingdom suggests otherwise. The discovery that bumblebees use hair on their legs to detect a flower’s electromagnetic field offers another reminder that human senses don’t always measure up. You share the planet with creatures that can smell veins, see colors you can’t imagine, and communicate through their feet. Here are just a few animals with senses sharper than yours.
E1NGp TIL The Rolex Daytona was originally considered an abysmal failure. Having been beaten to space by Omega, Rolex renamed the Cosmograph after Le Mans- then Daytona after licensing issues arose. It was so unsellable dealers literally gave them away. A modern example now goes for $20k.
QQRk TIL Americans consume 80% of the world’s pain pills.
v1PmK TIL that after the 1946 Italian Republic referendum, all members of the House of Savoy (House of the king of Italy) were required to leave the country and neither they nor their descendants were to set foot in Italy ever again. The provision was repealed in 2002
xVmdk TIL the 2012 Summer Olympic Committee contacted the manager of “The Who” to see if drummer Keith Moon was available to perform at the Olympics. Unbeknownst to them, he died 34 years earlier in 1978.