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TIL Beekeepers need to tell their bees when a major event happens in their life, particularly deaths and marriages. If they don't the bees may leave!

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lo6DA TIL that the Portuguese man o’ war isn’t actually a jellyfish, but a colony of individual organisms called zooids, each with a different function within the ‘body’
NQd6 TIL the SR-71 Blackbird goes so fast that it outran nearly 4000 missiles, never taking so much as a scratch during its entire career.
b9EMa TIL that UK supermarket chains source their bottled water in the same place
MJ9K TIL: Hundreds of Dodge Chargers were destroyed during filming of “The Dukes of Hazard”. This created such a shortage of available cars that by the final season they had to resort to using a radio controlled miniature.
jGOj TIL that Facebook punked tech crunch by implementing a functioning “Fax This Photo” button just visible to TC.