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TIL that there’s a species of tiny little spidery things that live inside the lungs of bees.

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WG04 TIL - Ginger Baker, Drummer of 60s band Cream, does not receive royalties, despite creating the band and contributing to many of their songs.
E1oaV TIL that having an especially judgemental attitude towards one’s inner experience can be the result of mental illness like depression and anxiety or even uncontrollable outburst of anger (Barcaccia et al., 2019; Barlow, Durand, & Hoffman, 2017).
neOJr TIL that people in the Philippines say "Tao po" when knocking on someone's door. It translates to "I am a human being". It comes from the belief that evil entities cannot do human speech. "Tao po, hindi aswang" is the original phrase, meaning "I am a human, not a flesh eating monster"
8eLGX TIL for the 1980 presidential election, one of Ronald Reagan's first choices for vice president was former president Gerald Ford
b9PR4 TIL that the earliest fossils interpreted as multicellular animal embryos, predating the Cambrian explosion by nearly 100 million years, have been found in the chinese Doushantuo formation.