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TIL about bees in Brooklyn who produced red honey which led to an investigation at a nearby marachino cherry factory which led to the discovery of a marijuana farm beneath the factory. The owner committed suicide before getting busted.

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YgmG TIL A British bomb detection dog in Afghanistan died from the stress of seeing his handler shot. They had set a new record for bomb detections and the dog was awarded the equivalent to a Victoria Cross.
b66Vp TIL that during WWI, some 120,000 Belgian civilians (of both sexes) were used as forced labour by the Germans, with roughly half being deported to Germany and half being sent to work just behind the front lines.
1DmD TIL that Richard Nixon sabotaged Vietnam peace talks to give himself a better chance in the 1968 U.S. Presidential election, prolonging the war by 5 years.
6EwoJ TIL about Cronus, the tarantula who whipped the Tory party in the United Kingdom. He is the pet of former chief whip Gavin Williamson. He kept Cronus positioned on his desk in his office in the Hous of Commons in order to intimidate MPs to vote with the government.
KOWXa TIL that Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, one of the highest-ranking men of African descent ever to lead a European army, has a verbal clashed with Napoleon Bonaparte.