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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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V9W0 TIL that Robin Williams dressed up as a Russian proctologist to humour Christopher Reeve right before his surgery with a 50% survival rate. Reeve stated: “For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay.”
rN6vd TIL that there are multiple animals out there capable of generating new neurons even as adults.
DQaYe TIL A 30 year old woman in Nazi occupied Norway was struck by shrapnel and developed a strong German accent causing her to be shunned in the first recorded case of Foreign Accent Syndrome.
Z8MED TIL there are only two countries in the world that tax their citizens on earnings while living abroad: the United States, and Eritrea
8kK8 TIL a Canadian Non-Profit organization began teaching Vancouver-area alcoholics how to brew their own beer and make wine in an effort to keep them from drinking alternate sources of alcohol, like rubbing alcohol, mouthwash, and hand sanitizer