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TIL Wasps Can Recognize Faces

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XomD TIL Of the police beating of Robert Leone, an innocent man arrested and tortured for 2 ½ years. The officers are still free, Robert is still in prison.
GYmG5 TIL, on the day of bombing on Hiroshima, within the first three seconds 1000s of people were incinerated as the temperature at the burst-point reached 60 million degrees centigrade- 10000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
d8KOQ TIL that the fade-out at the end of Holst's Neptune was achieved by slowly closing the door on a female choir as they sang in another room.
v7XL TIL the parents of Donald Duck are Quackmore Duck and Hortense McDuck, Hortense being the sister of Scrooge McDuck and grandmother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck.
8Lka TIL that some areas in Scotland and Japan switched to blue street lights at night and saw a decrease in crime and suicide rates.