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TIL Instead of pooping in the hive, bees wait until the weather is nicer to void their bowels in a massive shit storm called a cleansing flight

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VMe7k TIL all button mushrooms used to be brown until 1926, when a mushroom farmer in Pennsylvania found a cluster of white buttons growing in his beds, which he cloned and began selling as a new variety.
6Emrl TIL When Andrew Johnson tried to fire his Secretary of War Stanton, Stanton refused to leave and locked himself in his office for weeks, refusing to let his successor in.
vPVxx TIL humans are considered neotenus apes, meaning we retain juveline characteristics into adulthood
X0PRE TIL that frequent blood donation has been shown to reduce the concentration of "forever chemicals" in the bloodstream by up to 1.1 ng/mL, and frequent plasma donors showed a reduction of 2.9 ng/mL.
0wjNj TIL that in 1964 The Beatles helped fight racism by refusing to perform to a segregated audience, one of the first major steps to abolishing the rule