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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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VMQPk TIL of Harold Wobber, a 47-year-old war veteran who committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. After his death, his suicide note was found and read: "I'm going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I won't jump."
5YAB TIL two thirds of teenagers in the UK are atheists
9oQD TIL the number one most played song on U.S. radio of the 2000s decade was “How You Remind Me” by Nickelback. It was played on the radio over 1.2 million times.
WkQpo TIL a Bank Of America branch was legally foreclosed upon by a homeowner after failing to pay court-ordered restitutions
78gDx TIL about flood geology, the attempt to correlate real landscape features and the presence of coal or oil with the Biblical Great Flood