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TIL that only female honey bees sting, and that males cannot; the drone's stinger has been replaced with a sex organ.

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nWrKd TIL people living near a former atomic weapon plant in Washington state have increased thyroid cancer rates and nervous system tumors
7rwRp TIL Because mountain lions usually wander the wilderness alone, scent scraping sometimes isn’t enough to locate each other for mating. A female mountain lion will ascend to a high elevation and call to a male by caterwauling, a loud blood-curdling screeching cry that can be heard up to 5 miles away.
ADxea TIL Norman Fell (Mr. Roper) was reluctant to leave Three's Company to do a spin-off, but producers persuaded him by promising him the Ropers would return to Three's Company if the new show did not last one year. One month after the one year contract obligation expired, The Ropers was canceled.
W9N9 TIL that Porygon, from Pokémon, is spelled that way to reflect how Japanese people pronounce the “L” sound as an “R” sound. (So, Porygon is really Polygon).
K5g9 TIL in 1986 165,000 people paid Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker $1000 for a lifetime annual weekend pass at the new Heritage USA Christian resort. The park went bankrupt after IRS troubles, and the donors got back $6.54 each.