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TIL Bill Nye The Science Guy Has a Plan to Launch Laser Bees into Space to Defend Earth Against Asteroids

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XE178 TIL there's a biblical theory that the Adam and Eve narrative didn't involve Adam losing a rib but a Baculum (penis bone). Humans are the only Primate without one. Alternative scholars suggest that the use of the word rib was meant to be a euphemism.
GYm17 TIL: James Doohan, who played Star Trek's Scotty, was a lieutenant in WWII, was wounded during his participation in D-Day, and was once called the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force."
WknWB TIL the inventor of QR code is a Go player; he was inspired by its patterns and applied the idea to the QR code
eX1g TIL that bumblebees learn to solve problems by watching each other
Oo4P4 TIL of Hedviga Golik a Croatian woman who died in front of her television in her apartment in Zagreb in 1966 and was found 42 years later in 2008