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TIL of the European custom of "telling the bees," wherein bees would be told of marriages, funerals, and other important events in their keepers' lives.

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QJe7E TIL the difference between detonation and deflagration. Detonation is a supersonic chemical reaction in the explosive. Deflagration is a subsonic chemical reaction diffused by heat.
QJZ8a TIL that Photorhabdus is a strain of bacteria that lives inside nematodes. It works in symbiosis to kill host insects that nematodes target within 48 hours then produce antibiotics to disinfect the carcass.
YpN8Z TIL of Dean Cyril Reed, who was nicknamed the Red Elvis. In the 60s Reed was the best-selling Western performer in the Socialist countries, and often criticizer of US politics. In 1986, he was found dead under suspicious circumstances.
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