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TIL that urban bees can build their nests with plastic

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7W0Z TIL - In the cold war, US, UK, FR intelligence deprived the Soviets in East German of Toilet paper so they would resort using official documents to wipe. Operation Tamarisk was great success.
OVD4 TIL: President Roosevelt received letters from army cavalrymen complaining about having to ride 25 miles a day for training and, in response, Teddy rode horseback for 100 miles, from sunrise to sunset, at 51 years old.
16rd7 TIL that Huey and Riley from Boondocks were voiced by the same woman, Regina King.
vdPj TIL that there are more tigers kept as pets in Texas than there are wild tigers in India
WVMo TIL that the English word ‘assassin’ comes from the Arabic 'hashashin,’ or “hashish-eater,” the name of an 11th century Muslim sect that would intoxicate themselves with hashish before killing a person of public standing