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TIL Bees in Australia are Getting Drunk on Fermented Nectar and Being Refused Re-Entry to the Hive

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nWpEd TIL Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars statuettes were made of painted plaster for 3 years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones
NXrp1 TIL that Barbara and Kenneth Handler, the children whom Barbie and Ken were named after, never played with their namesake dolls in their lives, as neither them nor their children ever liked them
WkppY TIL the slogan “Don’t Mess With Texas” came from a 1985 campaign aimed at reducing litter on Texas Roadways.
dDA5d TIL Facebook has more monthly active users as of October 2022 (2.96 billion) than the entire population of Earth in 1958 (2.92 billion)
worGo TIL that the extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels