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TIL that in Australia, there are no bumblebees.

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wooQ1 TIL The Yamnaya steppe horse culture of the Black and Caspian sea regions was a major driver of migrations into western Europe about 4,500 years ago. This migratory surge is now regarded as the most likely source of the vast family of Indo-European languages, spoken by half the world today.
M1Y8 TIL that thanks to CERN, we now know that every atom in the Universe could be undone in an instant by a simple, unpredictable, unstoppable event: a quantum tunnel causing a phase-shift in the Higgs field.
e0yan Today I learned a christmas stocking is a viable weapon against stuffed animals.
9YEJ6 TIL in the show The Office, Kelly, Ryan, and Toby work in the annex because they are also writers of the show and don't have time to do background work.
x0wg Today I learned that an FBI agent sold secrets to the Soviets and Russia for 22 years, and when caught said, “what took you so long?”