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TIL bees poop, dropping yellow globs of undigested pollen grains while flying.

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ONy1 TIL of Foxes that can jump 3 feet in the air to dive 3 feet into snow to catch mice. They determine the speed and trajectory of the mouse before nose diving with pinpoint accuracy.
rrdM TIL that when Robert Kearns tried to license his intermittent wipers to the “Big Three” auto makers, they rejected his proposal, and used it in their cars anyway.
bWk7 TIL that the home of a female pediatrician in Wales was attacked and vandalised by Welsh kids who mistook “paedriatician” for “paedophile”
Y7GGZ TIL that Mozart died in 1791, leaving his ‘Requiem in D minor’ unfinished. His student, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, completed the work using Mozart’s sketches, creating the version most widely performed today.
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