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TIL a 2022 California Supreme Court decision allowed bumble bees to be considered a protected species because they met the state’s legal definition of a “fish”.

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AN0Q7 TIL that hundreds of miles underground in the Earth's mantle enough water is trapped within minerals that it could fill the world's oceans three times.
Bgxod TIL Thomas(ine) Hall was declared both a man and a woman in a Virginia court in 1629 and ordered to wear men's clothing with a woman's apron and bonnet. He/She would present as either gender carnally and when working as soldier, lacemaker, field laborer, or maid. Thomasine was physically intersex.
NXjDQ TIL That spiders can fly using static electricity
oRYBY TIL That in 1996, a hurricane formed over Lake Huron
ABg4 TIL thousands and thousands of mites closely related to spiders live in the pores of your face. They come out at night to mate and lay their eggs. Scientists aren’t sure of their purpose or what they eat