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TIL over 96% species of bees worldwide produce little to no honey at all and over 92% do not produce beehives.

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woDwJ TIL that Texas is the only state to have licensed dealers legally allowed to sell the Schedule 1 substance, Peyote. However they are only allowed to sell to people with a Certificate of Indian Blood.
LXdZ TIL “cracker” as an insult means “one who cracks the whip”.
mxk9E TIL that Queen Anne of England was pregnant 17 times. The first time at the age of eighteen, and the last at the age of thirty-four. She either miscarried or gave birth to stillborn babies. One child died under a year, another at a year and a half, and the oldest died at the age of eleven in 1700.
ZpJBD TIL when there were less than 5,000 Europeans in the large Louisiana area of New France before 1724, hundreds of good women, and also separately hundreds of criminal women were sent to Louisiana because of a shortage of women.
VM0oB TIL it costs more to renounce U.S. Citizenship ($2,350) than applying to gain it ($725). Renouncing citizenship was free before 2010. A fee was imposed due to the increase in recent years.