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TIL bees can be blue. Xylocopa caerulea, the blue carpenter bee, is non-aggressive and semi-solitary. They do not build hives like honeybees but instead prefer to live inside dead wood. They live in Southeast Asia, India and Southern China.

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x6VB0 TIL that a small part of southern Florida is the only place in the world where crocodiles and alligators coexist.
grVLb TIL the silent era film trope of peril with buzzsaws in sawmills came from an actual 19th-century play called "Blue Jeans"
rjZM TIL Thioacetone. A chemical so stinky that a small amount (test tube amount) causes nausea a half mile away. A smell so bad it was described as “Fearful”
GEVN TIL in 2015, Auvi-Q, an inexpensive Epi-Pen competitor, issued a voluntary recall of all devices in market due to reports of incorrect dose delivery. None of the 26 reports were ever confirmed, and no deaths reported. Auvi-Q will return to market in 2017 as an affordable alternative to the Epi-Pen.
7vJp TIL of Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie & Marie Dionne, the first quintuplets to have survived their infancy. Instant celebrities, they were taken from their parents by the Canadian government, who raised them for the first 9 years of their lives in a major tourist attraction known as “Quintland”