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TIL that male bees will ejaculate themselves to death during heatwaves.

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4l5J TIL Danielle Lierow is a girl who was severely neglected since birth, left in a dark room as a toddler, and never learned how to talk, eat, or hold a doll. She was adopted into a loving home in 2007 and in 2014 was 15 years old in high school and able to say “I love you” to her adoptive father.
9wMYm TIL average onset of menstruation for girls in 1840 was age 17. In 2000 it was 12 years old.
9w7PB TIL of Drosophila bifurca, the record-holder for the longest sperm cells in nature (20x its body-length)
gbg9 TIL August 24 is the anniversary of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the devastation of Pompeii (79 A.D.). The city was buried under 14 to 17 feet of ash and pumice, and would not be rediscovered again until 1748.
x60R7 TIL why Japan drives on the left hand side of the road which goes back all the way to the Edo period (1603-1867) when Samurai ruled the country. In 1872, England won the bid to help Japan build it's railway system (railways were all left side running) and left hand side driving became "official".