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TIL Beekeeping is leading to a decline of wild bees, and is not considered a conservationist effort.

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kw6E TIL that Paul Newman, voicing Doc Hudson in the Cars movie, died before Cars 2 and therefore Pixar included that Doc Hudson died before Cars 2 takes place.
Ook4Y TIL Alice In Chains began recording “Dirt” in LA on April 29, 1992, the first day of the riots. They broke to Joshua Tree to process the experience and continue writing before returning to finish the album.
0wo81 [TIL] Australia is the smallest continent on Earth. Oceania on the other hand is a region made up of thousands of islands in the South Pacific and is not a continent.
ADxo4 TIL: Between 2005 and 2010, NASCAR had a licensing agreement with Harlequin to print over 30 romance novels, based on racing.
9717 TIL of experiments in a high violence neighborhood of Chicago resulted in a 67% drop in shootings…by treating violence like an infectious disease instead of passing legislation or increasing arrests. Similar strategies resulted in 45% drops in other neighborhoods.