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TIL Japanese beekeepers use the pheromone threat response from wasps to trap them in glue traps to keep their hives safe

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RNAa TIL that Paris Hilton cost her family billions ($4.3 billion to be exact) because her grandfather decided to donate most of their money to charity because he was embarrassed at what she had done to the family name.
PkbZ TIL: Before playing J-ROC on Trailer Park Boys, Jonathan Torrens hosted a kids financial awareness program in the 1990s called, “Street Cents”
LQ640 TIL that tennis shoes were originally made for the British Navy when on their slippery decks. When the shoes came into the market in 1892, they were known as plimsolls. The shoes were then given the name sneakers because they had no sound when walking
kOkB1 TIL penicillin was first able to be mass-produced from a moldy cantaloupe found in Peoria, Illinois
7rKxX TIL that Willem Dafoe had to have a penis double for the scenes in Lars von Trier's experimental film Antichrist where his penis was exposed because his own was deemed so large that "everybody [on set] got very confused when they saw it" by the director.