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TIL -The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man and it only makes about a 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in it's entire life!

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QJ4Qa TIL in 1956 writer Harper Lee received an envelope from family and friends with a year’s salary in it. it read “you have one year off from your job to write whatever you want. Merry Christmas.” She wrote to Kill a Mockingbird which won the Pulitzer Prize and sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
EGp7 TIL Japan successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on an asteroid, collected samples in 2005. The probe returned to earth in 2010.
kJLgd TIL that the singer of “Be Prepared” from The Lion King is in dispute. While credited to Jeremy Irons, Jim Cummings (voice of Ed the Hyena) has variously claimed that he sang all or part of the song. Some have noted a slight shift in the vocals of the final verse.
7rA0p TIL Warren Buffet only bought Berkshire Hathaway because the CEO pissed him off and he wanted to fire him
Ad0o TIL Stephen King’s fictional town of Castle Rock was inspired by the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, in turn inspired the name of Rob Reiner’s production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the film Lord of the Flies (1990).