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TIL that honey bees defend their hive by forming a bee-ball around the attacker and generating heat, basically 'cooking' it from the inside.

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ADrd TIL there’s a biodegradable urn that contains a tree seed that absorbs the nutrients in your ashes. You can become a tree when you die!
k4Z1 TIL that between 1960 and 1977, the secret number authorizing US presidents to launch nuclear missiles was 00000000.
xyKb TIL Japanese scientists tested a notebook that belonged to Marie Curie she used for 15 years, only tiny traces of radioactivity were detected, the notebook was not dangerously radioactive
v0d4 TIL Larry King crashed into John F. Kennedy’s car in 1958. John F. Kennedy said he’d forget the whole thing if King promised to vote for him when he ran for president.
8R9G TIL: An American charity pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.