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TIL that Solitary Bees can pollinate exponentially more flowers than honey bees and there are many important bees that live alone not in a colony

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6w7l TIL that Angelina Jolie sold her baby photos to the press with the understanding that they’d never report any negative news about her, ever again (including pre-approving editorials about her).
1LPd TIL that in 2015 more people were killed from injuries caused by taking a selfie than by shark attacks
v77x TIL in 2013, a Jägermeister-sponsored party went awry, when the staff threw liquid nitrogen into the pool to create smoke. The nitrogen displaced oxygen, poisoning the people around. 9 partygoers were hospitalized, including one who fell into a coma.
N71OQ TIL of the Red Ghost, a camel that wandered the Arizona desert for 10 years with a human skeleton strapped to its back
Ap67 TIL that the city of Bogotá, Columbia employed 420 mimes to poke fun at pedestrians and drivers who didn’t follow the rules. As a result, traffic fatalities dropped by more than half, from an average of around to 1300 to about 600.