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TIL Borkum, a North Sea island once completely bee-free, is now a prime location for controlled bee breeding due to its isolation.

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oEpR TIL Jack Black’s mother was one of the engineers who helped design the Hubble Space Telescope.
1ep8 TIL that when Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates,he demanded they increase his ransom,treated the pirates as subordinates while enslaved,earned their respect and friendship,only to tell them he would hunt them down and have them executed when freed;which he eventually did.
6EE4J TIL there are about six million feral pigs in the United States, causing billions of dollars of damage every year.
a8NYL TIL the author of the opinion in US v. The Amistad, Justice Joseph Story, was played by retired Justice Harry Blackmun in the movie "Amistad"
rNdX1 TIL there is no evidence that Viking had horned helmets. Their depiction with horned helmets is a fallacy that began in the 1870s.