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TIL that bees are able to find the shortest distance between two points faster than a supercomputer

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m1Gox TIL there is a plane that flies above Los Angeles every single day releasing tens of thousands of sterile fruit flies to combat the invasive Mediterranean Fruit Fly.
koom TIL That Pythagoras is reported to have sentenced one of his students to death by drowning after the student proved that the square root of two was irrational. (Pythagoras believed all numbers were rational).
ja0E TIL, of Audrey Cosens who after losing his commander took charge, directing tank fire, and then single-handedly stormed a house killing 22 Germans and took the rest prisoner. He then took 2 more houses before being killed
n8X9 TIL Michael Cera played the voice of “Brother Bear” in the children show “The Berenstain Bears.”
QreE TIL Singapore used to control its population by offering preferential access to education to the children of parents who were voluntarily sterilized.