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TIL that honey bees wouldn’t die after stinging if they were given ample time to spin free from our skin

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JY5km TIL there's a gene, creatively named Indy, short for "I'm Not Dead Yet", in fruit flies, owing to the phenomenon where some of it's mutations almost double the lifespan of said host.
kO8YB TIL of Gail Halvorsen who dropped candy to children of Berlin via parachutes during the Berlin Airlift. He was nicknamed "Uncle Wiggly Wings" & "The chocolate uncle" by those children who wrote him letters.
lZYa TIL Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice
VMBJD Maybe, but it’s going to take a long time. For the past 200,000 years or so, fatty and sugary foods were hard for humans to come by and well worth gorging on. Fats help maintain body temperature, sugars provide energy, and craving such food is hardwired: Eating fats and sugars activates reward centers in the brain.
bNRN TIL that at least about 100 North Korean defectors to South Korea, unable to cope with the new society, isolation, and lack of job prospects, have went back to North Korea.