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TIL honeybees that get drunk on fermented tree sap are denied access to the hive and are often attacked by the sober bees.

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vP447 TIL that so many people were killed in the Battle of Changping which lasted from 262-260 BC that the bones of the dead were used to make fertilizer in the 1970s
e0JyJ TIL the movie Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was written, directed, and starred by the same person (Steve Oedekerk). He used footage from a 1976 Hong Kong film and filmed new scenes to create a new plot. He re-dubbed all characters himself (except for the character Whoa).
E10mo TIL of Story Musgrave, the most Formally Educated Astronaut, despite being a HS Dropout . He has BAs in Mathmatics, Statistics, and Chemistry; a MBA; a MS in Physiology and Biophysics; a MD (surgery); and a MA in Literature. He's also the only astronaut to have flown on all 5 Space Shuttles.
OoKa TIL Charles Manson’s mother once sold him to a waitress for a pitcher of beer. His uncle retrieved him some days later.
r6Gx TIL the International Space Station runs Linux as an operating system and has had it’s computers infected with viruses more than once. It is also travelling at 5 miles per second and orbits Earth every 92 minutes.