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

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dlDj TIL the then unknown writer Franz Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his works after his death. Brod didn’t, published them and Kafka became world famous posthumously.
45jN TIL that because salt was so highly valued in the ancient world, the modern word for “salary” is derived from the latin word for salt.
X0DPR TIL that Samsung made a robot butt to test their phones durability.
LmgV TIL of a proposed project that would have united both hemispheres on a single train line, complete with a tunnel under the Bering Strait.
oBeKo TIL For years John Wayne supported giving control of the Panama Canal to the country of Panama. His support earned him the only hate mail he ever received in his life, but also his own island off the coast of Panama - appropriately named John Wayne Island.