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TIL you purchase bees by the pound. You can buy about 3 lbs of bees for $175

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D16Gr TIL on 25th January 1996 Billy Bailey was executed by hanging. He is only the third person to be executed in the US by hanging since 1965. The gallows used were dismantled in 2003 as Delaware stopped allowing death row inmates this option of execution
Z80nR TIL: The central spire on the Notre Dame was built almost 600 years later in the 19th century amid a broad restoration effort, partly buoyed by the success of Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" in 1831.
mNXR TIL cats can have pandas in a process known as Xenopregnancy. Nuclei from cells taken from abdominal muscles of giant pandas were transferred to egg cells of rabbits and transferred into the uterus of cat together with cat embryos.
V0dD TIL a man murdered his coworker over an 18-year old girl he’d met online. It was later discovered the girl was actually a middle-aged woman who’d used her daughter’s identity to fool the two men
j6kxQ TIL The Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, which aired from 1986 to 1990, involving challenges and painful entertainment, inspired countless physical challenge game shows still popular today