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TIL Humans have been depicting beekeeping in art for 40,000 years and it's now thought this development contributed to human brain capacity development to a similar degree that meat did.

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gr0Mb TIL that grunion fish have unusual mating habits. The females will burrow tail-first into the sand up to their necks so that only their heads stick out. Then a bunch of males will squirt their sperm onto their heads. The sperm trickles down their bodies to reach the eggs below them.
16oKD TIL that, until 2003, the French military provided 'mobile brothels' to troops on the frontline of world wars, among other conflicts
WejN TIL there is a Jellyfish whose neurotoxin “induces an overwhelming feeling of impending doom”
rZ0d TIL that there were homeless shelters where you could sleep for 4 pennies in a coffin, hence the name Four Penny Coffin. For 1 penny you could sit on a bench all night but weren’t allowed to fall asleep. For 2 pennies you could sit on a bench and lean on a rope and catch some sleep.
7KLO TIL that after observing how long guests would hold onto garbage before littering at other amusement parks, Walt Disney placed each trash can no more than 30 feet apart.