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TIL Bee Keepers in the US are Selectively Cross Breeding Bees to be Genetically Predisposed to Destroying Parasitic Mites

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l7PDa TIL That only two states in the U.S. allow "mutual combat", being Washington and Texas. And that Consent to fight in Texas doesn’t need to be explicitly stated. If someone’s words and actions make it clear that they want to fight, this is considered consent
Z84PD TIL the term masterpiece was not used to describe an artist's greatest work, but was used by guilds to describe the piece submitted to them by artists and craftsman to attain the rank of Master.
ooa7 TIL:University of Illinois hosts a phone number you can call 24/7 for a few weeks in December and a live person will sing you Christmas carols. They have been doing this for 55 years.
0wALj TIL Napoleon III's Y-chromosome (which is inherited father to son) does not match other member's of the Bonaparte family implying his legal father was not his father and he was not a Bonaparte. There had been rumors during his lifetime that he was illegitimate due his mother's affairs.
rR7b4 TIL the maze generation algorithm for the 1982 Atari game Entombed always makes solvable mazes just by looking at the 5 nearest tiles, and nobody understands why it works—it came upon a programmer when he was drunk