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TIL female ants and bees are more closely related to their sisters than their own daughters, which explains eusocial behavior.

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MMaK TIL the reason that (research) submarines are yellow is because yellow is one of the last few colours to be visible at great depth.
YPvd TIL Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Sean Bean, Dominic Monaghan, and Viggo Mortensen all have the Elvish number 9 tattooed on their shoulders to symbolize being members of The Fellowship of the Ring.
nWLaB TIL - Venus is the only planet that doesn't spin counterclockwise
WEKN TIL that a size 8 at Banana Republic is a size 2 at The Gap.
wQZ6 TIL During the “Red Terror” of 1918, Communist secret police in Orel “poured water on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues.” In Ukraine, they “rolled people around in barrels studded internally with nails.” Upwards of 1 million people died.