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TIL Nirvana originally started out as a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band

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knKB TIL Truck driving is the most common job in most states in the U.S., due in part to being immune to globalization and automation.
x7b7 TIL That Arnold Schwarzenegger has killed 509 people on screen throughout his entire career as an actor- and the “White Death”, Simo Häyhä, the sniper with the most confirmed kills in any major war, has killed only FOUR FEWER real people.
Xv4k TIL Women used to bald just like men but that feature died out due to reproductive selection in prehistoric society.
4kM7o TIL about ichneumon wasps, a family of parasitic wasps that lays their eggs in butterfly cocoons, spider nests, or into larger insects directly. The adult wasp paralyzes the hosts such that the ichneumon larvae can feed. After some weeks, the now-mature offspring then emerge en masse from the host
d8lKr TIL lupines can signal to a bee that the pollen rewards are gone or almost gone. After pollination occurs, the petals change color as a way of saying “no more here, try the next flower…” This re-directs the bee to a flower that needs pollination.