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TIL Honeybees flap their wings 230 times per second

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BaBd TIL the oldest know adhesive, dated back to 200,000 BC, is from cave man semen
QPYd TIL that in 2004 in the Parisian Catacombs, the police found a movie theater in a carved out cave, complete with a full-sized screen, restaurant and couscous-maker.
X0gJD TIL after John Ruffo was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison, his bail was set at $10 million. Most of his immediate family put their houses up as collateral to make bail. Ruffo then disappeared and the homes of his wife, mother, mother-in-law, and others were seized by the government.
awN8N TIL Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was born in England, grew up in the Home Counties and attended a private school
X0Jar TIL in 1970 author Jilly Cooper lost the only manuscript for her erotic novel 'Riders' on a London bus. It was never found. Devasted, she took another 14 years to begin writing it again. It went on to became an international bestseller and kicked of the "bonkbustrr" genre.