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TIL that wasps are carnivores. They typically eat other bugs but will also eat cooked meat and chicken

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AD86w TIL Princeton's Roger Nelson PhD proposes that human consciousness affects the variance in randomness of hardware-based random number generators. Since 1998, Nelson's Global Consciousness Project uses a global network to create random data over time, which is then associated with real-world events.
AKbg TIL that out of 1,000,000 LEGO blocks manufactured, only about 18 blocks are rejected.
loLR7 TIL that china is consuming more pork than ever before
KgZa TIL “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is about Shaka The Lion, a warrior king of the Zulus who resisted the armies of European colonizers. The song claims that he is not dead, only sleeping, and he will one day return to lead his oppressed people to freedom.
E1970 TIL of Grietje Scott, who at 90 years old revealed her secret to her family. She was actually a highly decorated member of the Dutch underground in WWII and part of an elite fighting force. She had never told anyone about it and not even her family knew.