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TIL Singapore was forced into independence against their will
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TIL if a bee colony wants a new queen they select a few larvae irrespective of gender and feed them copious amounts of Royal Jelly so that the larvae develop queen morphology.
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TIL the famous sci-fi series, Dune, was rejected by nearly twenty book publishers when Frank Herbert sought to publish them.
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TIL The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated the same year Nintendo was founded.
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TIL: An Israeli captain who emptied the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a fleeing 13-year-old Palestinian girl was acquitted on all charges
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TIL a unit of women aviators, known as the Night Witches, in the Soviet Air Force bombed the Germans during WWII by idling their engines and gliding to the bomb release site so that only the wind noise could reveal their position. They did this at night and flew with no parachutes.