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TIL When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and he dies.

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nerGW TIL "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" is an insult used to refer to French people. It first appeared in the Simpsons (1995) when Willy says "Bonjoooouuurrr, ya cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys" to a French class. The term has since entered two Oxford Quotation Dictionaries.
OdQg TIL the reason dogs walk in circles before going to sleep is because this is how they would create a bed in long grass in the wild
DQ78P TIL: George Lucas added 3 new shots to The Empire Strikes Back in the weeks between the 70mm Release (~100 Screens) in May 1980 and the wider 35mm Release in June 1980. He felt the final scenes were geographically confusing and wanted to clarify them with establishing shots of the ships.
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