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TIL How double rainbows are formed

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Lkwo0 TIL of Worker Policing. A brutal regulatory system in hives by which female workers will attach their queen and eat her sons if there are too many compared to their own sons, and sometimes will eat their own if the Queen's eggs are too few.
X0VdD TIL that after the bombing of Hiroshima, an American POW in World War 2 was questioned about US atomic bombs. He told them he didn't know anything about that, but when they threatened to kill him, he "revealed" that they had hundreds and that Tokyo and Kyoto were next.
VBjVQ TIL Pierce Brosnan's final performance as James Bond was not in a movie, but rather in the 2004 video game "James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing," which also saw Willem Dafoe lend his voice and likeness to the villain Nikolai Diavolo.
9b4G TIL that Fiji water company ran the slogan “Fiji, because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. The Cleveland water dept. Took offense, and ran a test determining that Fiji water has more impurities than the cities’ tap water.
M7AJA TIL there is a pathway in England called the Ridgeway that has been in use for 5,000 years.