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TIL there is a species of bees called Squash Bees that sleeps in pumpkin flowers.

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Lk9Dr TIL sound travels at about 1,080 feet per second in a fog bank. Steamboat captains, rounding off to 1,000 feet for safety, would listen for the echo from their steam whistle to tell how far from shore they were in a fog. An echo heard 1 second after whistle means the boat was 500 ft from shore.
xJg TIL until the 18th century we had a “single-sex” view of the two bodies, where women were simply cold, “underdeveloped” men, whose penises never dropped. The vagina was an “inside-out penis,” and both men and women produced semen.
4glg TIL Space Ghost Coast to Coast was the show that launched the late night television block we know today as Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.
ZpxnG TIL We are currently amidst the longest gap between EF5 tornadoes in history
9n7p TIL I learned of Matthias Sindelar, the “Mozart of football”. Widely considered one of the best players of the 1930s, he defiantly scored and celebrated a goal against Nazi Germany in a game meant to celebrate the Anschluss. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1939.