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TIL honeybees can understand the concept of zero.

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MrdK TIL that experiment participants invited to eat soup ate 73% more soup if (unknown to them) their bowl was attached to a pump and vat of soup that refilled their bowl as they ate.
eRWJ TIL that on this date in 1937, the Japanese army entered Nanking - setting off a six-week orgy of rape, torture and murder that killed over 300,000 people.
dDZWK TIL that after making a kill and consuming what they can, tigers make an attempt to hide the carcass from vultures and other scavengers so that another meal can be obtained.
v8gr TIL that a cat named Tama is a manager at a railway station in Japan, a job which pays her in cat food. During her tenure ridership has increased 10%, leading her to be promoted to super-station manager in 2008.
d8p87 TIL, having trouble getting out of bed in the morning is indicative of an underlying medical condition called dysania.