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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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xgND TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.
m1JaR TIL The Macintosh was named after McIntosh apple. The name was misspelled on purpose to avoid conflict with a manufacturer called McIntosh Laboratory.
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Oojda TIL of "bone music": sold on the Soviet black market, etched onto discarded X-Rays