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TIL that in 2012 bees in France produced colored honey after consuming sugar from a nearby M&m’s factory.

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6EmnW TIL that skatole, the same compound that gives poop its smell, is fragrant in low concentrations and is used in some perfumes and ice creams
R51N8 TIL about Cleopatra Selene II (40 BCE - ca. 5 BCE), the only daughter of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII and Roman Triumvir Mark Antony, who as Queen of Mauretania was a powerful female ruler until her untimely death during a lunar eclipse at the age of 35.
odRo TIL that Emenim performed the song Kim, after promising her he wouldn’t, while she was in the front row of concert. She immediately left the concert, got in a car wreck and then proceeded to slit her wrist once she made it home.
XEvZ8 TIL that in ancient Rome, clairvoyants acted as civil servants. Augures, or auspices, interpreted the signs of birds to determine whether the gods favoured everything from elections, wars, even whether or not to hold certain ceremonies. Nothing could move forward without the auspices approval.
v1MYR TIL The equivalents of the idiom “It’s all Greek to me” in world languages use other kinds of languages other than Greek.