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TIL about buzz pollination, or sonication—a technique in which certain bees use vibrations to remove and collect pollen from flowers.

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loEw7 TIL Researchers have created a bio-inspired compound eye that is helping scientists understand how insects sense an object and its trajectory with such speed. The compound eye could also be useful for 3D location systems for robots, self-driving cars and unmanned aerial vehicles.
BgE7r TIL the world's oldest dog(31) was supposed to be killed after birth but his brown fur aided him in hiding amidst wooden logs
XEGeE TIL that Senator Jake Garn, who flew in the Space Shuttle in 1985, experienced the worst case of space sickness on record. Because of this, NASA jokingly uses a "Garn Scale" to measure reactions to space sickness, where "1.0 Garn" is the worst.
N70RE TIL although they are often stereotyped as the richest ethnicity in the USA Jews aren't the richest ethnicity in the USA, with an average household income of 100k$ they are second, Indians are first with an average household income of 122k$
dDvRB TIL Germany built huge artillery during WW1 where each shot would wear out the gun so much that shells had increasing diameter and had to fired in the right order