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TIL bees can be trained to smell landmines and other explosives by sticking out their proboscises.

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VMxyD TIL In order to draft up the Nuremberg racial laws, the nazis studied in detail American racial laws. However they found the "one-drop" rule too harsh and thus settled to regard anyone with 3 of 4 Jewish grandparents as a Jew.
nZaB TIL that the Netherlands provides free heroin to addicts three times a day, along with clinics in which to do the drug
rRdr1 TIL when Elvis Presley's debut single was first played on the local radio station, he was invited for an on-air interview. The DJ asked Elvis which high school he attended: a roundabout way of informing the audience of his race without actually asking the question
Ydv TIL: Alien world blacker than coal, the darkest planet known, has been discovered in the galaxy.
1lpD TIL King Croesus was told by the Delphic Oracle that if he invaded Persia, he would destroy a great empire. Croesus attacked the Persians, but was eventually defeated and captured. The great empire destroyed was his own.