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TIL Wasps Can Recognize Faces

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7rJgZ TIL Paul McCartney managed to make an appearance on Pink Floyds' album Dark Side of the Moon. At the end of track “Eclipse”, a passage from an orchestral version of the Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” can be heard; the song was playing in the background at the Abbey Road studio during this recording!
yQbwX TIL That all the victims who jumped from the WTC towers were re-classified as "Fallers", and therefore all their deaths were ruled homicides.
YXxx TIL that early balloons were made from animal intestines.
O7g6 TIL that experiences you have throughout your life, leave chemical markers on your DNA; essentially ingraining superficial experiences into your descendants.
X0Q9Q TIL the Australian Tim Tam chocolate biscuit, inspired by Britain’s Penguin biscuit and created by food technologist Ian Norris, was named after “Tim Tam” , the horse that won the 1958 Kentucky Derby when Ross Arnott attended the race and first appeared on supermarket shelves in 1964