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TIL the bees flight has never been a mystery. In 1934 Antonie Magnan wrote that calculations using fixed wing flight did not add up, and this proves they dont have fixed wings, not that they couldn’t fly

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69r5X TIL Comet Hale-Bopp was independently discovered in 1995 by two people: astronomer Alan Hale and amateur stargazer Thomas Bopp. Both immediately alerted the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams to report their discovery. Hale sent an e-mail, while Bopp sent a Western Union telegram.
ykme TIL ice cream contains all 3 states of matter - gas, solid and liquid (air bubbles, ice crystals, and milk) - and is considered both an oil-in-water emulsion and a foam. Much more complex than I thought!
xVaDB TIL the makers of the "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" movies bought a horse just to make a joke. They named the horse All Pink and instructed the jockey not to win but to stay on the inside rail the whole race just to hear the play-by-play announcer say "It's All Pink on the inside!"
9YGo7 TIL that the Epaulette shark can walk on land and is able to survive on very low levels of oxygen for two hours without ill effects
Qol9 TIL: In 1978 D.C. comics published Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.