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TIL that bees have five eyes and I just think that's neat 🐝

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VMdb0 TIL In 2010 a mother killed her baby because it was distracting her from playing FarmVille
M7JPb TIL about Roger Fisher, a Harvard Law School professor who proposed putting the US nuclear codes inside a person, so that the president has no choice but to take a life to activate the country's nuclear weapons.
4klyw TIL that Charvaka, a 6th century BCE Indian materialist school, was one of history’s earliest explicitly atheist philosophies, rejecting gods, the soul, and the afterlife in favor of direct perception and skepticism
1ajed TIL william lever, founder of sunlight soap which later became Unilever, collaborated with belgian congo and used forced labor.
9YY5p TIL that there exists a number of secret meeting places in the French Catacombs with running water, electricity, and phone lines.