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TIL the Oriental Hornet’s exoskeleton has the ability to convert solar energy into electricity

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wLXpJ Jedidiah Jenkins quit his job and decided to bike from Oregon to the southern tip of South America. His best friend, filmmaker Kenny Laubbacher, came along for the ride. This short film follows Jenkins as he shares what he's learned from his journey so far. “When you’re a kid, everything is astonishing. Everything is new, and so your brain is awake and turned on ... Once your brain establishes a routine, it stops ... the alertness goes away,” he says. By choosing adventure Jenkins is able to reactivate his brain and turn his “hundred years on this planet into a thousand.
OoJx7 TIL Army vet Gregory Holeman needed a ride to the hospital, but his care via the Veteran's Admin. didn't cover a 911 ambulance. He asked his sister to call a social worker but she misdialed and Jimmy John's answered; so JJ delivery driver Zack Hillmer (a U.S. Navy vet) drove him to the hospital.
9rNr TIL Mexico is the biggest exporter of beer in the world.
G7XQ TIL Today is really America’s independence day. July 2, 1776 was the day the United States declared independence from Great Britain. John Adams wrote a letter to his wife saying “the Second of July, 1776, will be the most memorable in the history of America.”
nepPr TIL There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe, It is called the Shannon Number.