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TIL that the Pokemon Charizard inspired the naming of Chilicola charizard, a species of stem-nesting bee.

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JnDk TIL that Abraham Lincoln arrested pro-confederate members of Maryland’s legislature as they were headed to a vote on whether Maryland would secede from the Union, in order to prevent Maryland from seceding.
gr5A9 TIL that when an apiary needs a new queen the farmer can't just put one in or the bees may kill her because she smells unfamiliar, so what the farmers do is lock the little queen in a cage with a door made of sugar, so that by the time the workers eat enough sugar for her to leave they are familiar.
0wKYR TIL legal scholars use the terms malum prohibitum and malum in se to distinguish between offences which are legally or morally forbidden. The former is wrong simply for rules prohibiting them whilst the latter is wrong as it is seen as an innately immoral act.
0d7V5 TIL that according to Utah public decency law, a man is considered nude if his genitals are "in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered."
P9xJ TIL if you search “do the harlem shake” on Youtube, you get a cool surprise thanks to Google