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TIL There's such a thing as "Winter Bees"

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OGE6e TIL a 2015 study involving 280 men found that viewing visual sexual stimuli was unrelated to experiencing erectile dysfunction with a partner, while it was related to a stronger desire for sex with a partner.
ADEWg TIL that scientists tried — and failed — to make a knife out of frozen poop, debunking a story that an Inuit (Eskimo) man fashioned a knife out of his own frozen feces.
p8Vr8 TIL that some lighthouse light apparatuses use a mercury bearing to reduce friction, allowing for faster rotation speeds without powerful mechanisms
wBGM TIL H. Jon Benjamin, voice actor for Sterling Archer and Bob from Bob’s Burgers, made a jazz album entitled “Well, I should have…” (subtitled “learned to play piano”). He plays jazz piano on the album. He does not know how to play piano.
VMrOD TIL that silicon transistors in modern computer chips are only 14nm wide, which is 400x smaller than a red blood cell. We are reaching the theoretical minimum size of silicon transistors, at which point quantum mechanics prevents them from working properly.