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TIL that Bumblebees Can Fly Higher Than Mount Everest

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OlR4 TIL that in Classical Athens, the citizens could vote each year to banish any person who was growing too powerful, as a threat to democracy. This process was called Ostracism.
VE9G TIL our brain perceives people who annoy us as moving slower than they actually are
ZkJD TIL In 2003, Juan Catalan was cleared of murder charges, after outtake footage shot for “The Car Pool Lane” episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him and his daughter attending the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Atlanta Braves baseball game some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder.
M7bJB TIL that more than three billion people rely on the ocean to make a living
e8Wb TIL that Lockheed Martin is currently developing an unmanned aircraft that is capable of reaching speeds exceeding Mach 20. Able to cross the United States in under 12 minutes