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TIL when a male honey bee has sex, its testicles explode and the bee dies

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MLN8 TIL in 1926 a Pasadena mailman planted some avocado seeds intending to graft with the desirable Fuerte variety. The graft repeatedly failed on one tree and he was going to cut it down, but was advised to “wait and see what happens”. It became the mother tree from which all Hass avocados originate.
yQM4w TIL: A "Baker's Dozen" is a result of a 13th century English law saying that selling a dozen units that failed to meet a certain average weight could result in a fine. Bakers got around the law by selling by the "13" instead.
59yr TIL there are at least 67 different moons orbiting Jupiter, three of which could have potentially habitable environments
awnGy TIL The term checkmate is, according to the Barnhart Etymological Dictionary, an alteration of the Persian phrase “shāh māt” (شاه مات) which means, literally, “the King is helpless”
a0LL TIL that his day, 20 years ago, Doomsday killed Superman. This angered so many fans that members of the DC writting team actually received death threats.