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TIL that male bees and wasps contain half the amount of genetic information that female bees/wasps have, as males hatch from unfertilised eggs. Egg laying females can choose whether or not to fertilise an egg from her 'spermatheca' to create male or female offspring.

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d19Q TIL the ‘Moon Museum’ is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch by half an inch in size which was left on the surface of the moon during the apollo 12 mission. It contains artworks by the six most prominent artists of the 1960’s, including Andy Warhol, who drew a penis.
Qwg6 TIL there are over 200 ancient underground cities in Turkey, some are big enough to hold 20,000 people. They have churches, ventilation shafts, and many are connected by tunnels.
wLGPY TIL due to a folk belief that people born in certain years have bad personalities, the birth rate in Japan dropped by 30% from 1965 to 1966, and recovered completely in 1967.
GYPr7 TIL: That the children of Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, carry no Royal Titles. They are still in the Royal line of succession but have no peerage titles because thier father was common born and refused a title upon marriage into the Royal Family.
WeD8 TIL That Xbox had ambient sounds playing while you left the Xbox idle, the sounds are from NASA transmissions, so the Xbox would look like superior technology