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TIL Saint Valentine was also the patron saint of Beekeepers and Epilepsy

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b9rVa TIL: When a bee visits a flower it transfers charge; this affects the electric field in the vicinity of the flower. A second bee can sense this and determine from a distance if the flower was recently visited.
y9Ow TIL: The word “weird” used to mean “having the power to control fate”, deriving from the proto-norse “wyrd” which roughly means “fate”.
EBv0 TIL of Jack the Goat who decided to befriend a newly blinded horse named Charlie. Jack guided Charlie around for 16 years and spared Charlie’s owners from having to put him(Charlie) down.
ADLyg TIL that one of the oldest men alive was pissed off at his president for cutting off tobacco sales during the shutdown and all he asked for on his 116th birthday was a pack of cigarettes.
b1l4 TIL of ‘Genie’, a child who was kept in a blacked out room by her father for the first 13 years of her life