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TIL Honey bees initially have up to 21 virgin queen bees, who fight to the death until there is only one.

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699Wm TIL in 2019, adult film industry star Kimberlee Anne asked her boyfriend to point a loaded gun towards her for “sexual gratification and arousal” while they were having sex. When he held it to her chest he accidentally pulled the trigger and the gun went off. She died later in hospital.
ADELo TIL of Cymburga, a 15th Century Polish princess who became the female ancestor of all later Habsburgs. She was "renowned both for her beauty and for her ability to drive nails into oak planks with her bare fists."
NXdJM TIL that while it's a grain agriculturally, a vegetable culinarily, corn is botanically a fruit
X0Exk TIL that U.S. Marines significantly damaged the Babylon ruins during the Iraq invasion in 2003
R7v5j TIL that meteorologists rely in part on data from commercial planes to accurately forecast weather. Under European regulations, all large aircraft must carry Mode-S EHS an enhanced surveillance navigation apparatus. Data collected by this apparatus is used to extrapolate wind speed and temperature.