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TIL that wasps are actually just as good pollinators as bees are. A similar quantity of pollen grains stick to and fall off of paper wasps as with bumblebees

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PwDV TIL: When Picasso was interrogated by an SS officer about his painting Guernica, “Did you do that?” Picasso replied, “No, you did.”
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