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TIL Hodor is the name of the Norse god of Winter

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jN9nE TIL: a 1918 influenza pandemic children’s rhyme: I had a little bird, And its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flew-enza.
6X8Q TIL That Karl Pilkington’s Brother was kicked out of the army for driving a tank down to the shop to buy Smokes
N7PKM TIL J.J Thompson was awarded a Nobel prize in 1906 for proving Electrons are particles, his son G.P Thomas was awarded a Nobel prize in 1937 for showing electrons are waves
0wBgy TIL honeybees form a ball around their queen to kill her by overheating her to death if they are no longer able to make offspring, and they do the same to enemy hornets and invading queens who are rejected as a new queen
mdAy TIL the native americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit eachother. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.