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TIL: When given colored construction paper, wasps build rainbow colored nests

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X01bE TIL the Sioux believe the Great Spirit created a race of giants triple the size of men, who were arrogant and denied the existence of a Creator. The Great Spirit released a flood upon the world, higher than the mountains. When the giants were all dead he created humans, smaller and weaker.
kOxXE TIL about Vincent Kosuga, an American Onion farmer that made so much money from trading Onion futures, the United States passed the "Onion Futures Act'' banning the practice of trading Onion futures.
JPQ8 TIL AT&T made a working answering machine in 1939 but suppressed it, thinking public fear of being recorded would lead to widespread abandonment of the telephone.
wo5BW TIL that in order to grow vanilla, humans have to hand pollinate every vanilla orchid by delicately pressing the stamen and stigma together
D1PEe TIL David Bowie gave permission for David Lynch to use old footage of him for the revival of Twin Peaks (2017), because he was too sick to film anything new at the time. After he watched old footage, he disliked his accent so much, he asked Lynch to dub his dialogue with an authentic Louisiana actor