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TIL: Due to South Korea's low fertility rate its population is predicted to start declining next year.

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e0OdE TIL honey bees can communicate by dancing, it is known as the "waggle dance" and by moving in a certain way in relation to the hive the bees can indicate direction, and by moving for a certain amount of time they can indicate distance, by doing this they can tell other bees in the hive food sources
Br40L TIL: In the 1950s, if a woman wanted to know if she was pregnant, she needed to get her urine injected into a frog to see if it would lay eggs. This was a mainstream method and thousands of frogs were exported around the world.
AN0Nw TIL that in 2000, fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs ordered his followers to pull their children out of public schools, leading one school district to drop from 1,200 students, to less than 250.
Kjww TIL ‘Smokers Express’ was an idea for a smokers airline. They would’ve encouraged smoking with free cigarettes, full-size ashtrays, free headsets, serving hamburgers, pizzas and steaks. It never took off.
wLr1M TIL about the Guangxi Massacre during China's cultural revolution, where hundreds of people were cannibalized and barbecued out of hatred and tens of thousands more were murdered.