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TIL Honeybees flap their wings 230 times per second

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7kWb TIL that Superman would have entered public domain on 1 January 2014 if copyright terms in the United States had not been extended in the late 1990s.
MLya TIL that the dispute over whether Newton or Leibniz invented calculus was decided by the Royal Society. Newton, as the President, appointed an impartial committee to decide the issue, which concluded in its official report that Newton was the inventor. Newton was the anonymous author of the report.
1bMD TIL the call of the American bald eagle frequently heard in movies actually belongs to the red-tailed hawk.
xV4X5 TIL the Lakota Indian known as Curly had a vision that he would be protected in battle. When he was subsequently wounded he realised the vision hadn't shown scalping, so he never scalped again. He went on to be known as Crazy Horse and helped defeat Custer at Little Big Horn.
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