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TIL, Bees Can Get Drunk, Guard Bees will notice it in their Waggle Dance and may punish them, including breaking their legs as a warning to other bees.

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knnW TIL Coca-Cola was originally sweetened with wine. Before the wine was switched out for sugar, it was known as “Pemberton’s French Wine Coca”. It was a 1886 prohibition law enacted in Atlanta that caused its inventor, Dr. John S. Pemberton, to rewrite the formula.
YXPZ TIL the logo of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is the kiwi, a flightless bird.
4kbRb TIL that a nuclear worker in Japan was exposed to 17 Sieverts of radiation (twice the amount that should kill a person). He was kept alive for 83 days, suffering serious radiation burns to his body, severe organ failure, and an almost zero white blood cell count.
PYevG TIL that Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel & Casino had its worst financial week ever when it hosted a physicist convention
oZw8 TIL that an octopus has an arm that also functions as a tongue AND a penis