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TIL there is a form of edible wood.

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XE5Rk TIL that bees dance to each other in the hive to tell each other where to find good pollen. The angle of the dance is the angle relative to the sun, the tempo of dance is the distance, the duration of dance is the quality of the pollen, and the dancer hands out free samples to whoever’s watching!
5Y9Wp TIL eruption of Eyjafjallajökull caused enough economic difficulties that aircraft manufacturers were forced to define specific limits on how much ash is considered acceptable for a jet engine to ingest without damage
8abeZ TIL about Minority Games. When people are given the same amount of information, and are supposed to compete for a natural resource, polarization naturally occurs over time.
9YdnQ TIL that a lemon is actually a hybrid between a bitter orange and a citron, meaning life never gave us lemons, we invented it ourselves.
P1g4g TIL Lou Bega, famous for his version of Mambo No. 5, is German