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TIL Himalayan cliff bees in Nepal produce hallucinogenic honey know as "Mad Honey" and it's effects are comparable to magic mushrooms and LSD.

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b9abN TIL in 2015, Stephen Hawking teamed up with Monty Python and recorded a version of "The Galaxy Song."
kxMW TIL that if you took the entire US Debt and converted it to pennies and stacked them all on top of each other, it’d be so long that it’d take light just under 2.5 hours to traverse the distance
b6eo4 TIL that California’s Central Valley has sunk by up to 28 feet since the 1920s due to groundwater pumping. Some parts of the valley are still sinking by up to 2 feet per year.
QDE6 TIL that in Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit the children hard during the dodgeball scene. The quick cuts weren’t to make it look like he was throwing hard, it was because the children were crying afterwards. Sandler’s pitch for the idea? “Hurting kids is funny.”
W5Y9 TIL Shakira speaks 7 languages, founded Fundación Pies Descalzos (which aims to take education to children in a situation of risk all over Colombia and Latin America) when she was 18 and partnered with UNICEF’s work for children