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TIL Ford created the iconic Jeep design

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rNb1 TIL Bill Nye’s TV career began on a local Seattle sketch comedy show named Almost Live. He was an engineer at Boeing at the time.
0xpy TIL the sole difference between a honey bee worker and a queen bee is in nourishment during the maturation process. Queen bees get feed royal jelly their entire life while worker bees only get royal jelly the first two days of their larval stage.
mxkdY TIL that the Soviet Union disapproved of Somalia's 1977 invasion of Ethiopia and so ceased its support of Somalia and started supporting Ethiopia. In response, the United States ceased its support of Ethiopia and started supporting Somalia.
DQEvr TIL that there is a Maori clan made up of descendants of a Spaniard who emigrated in the 19th century.
nLaP TIL there is a mountain called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu in New Zealand, its name translates to “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one”