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TIL “percussive maintenance” is the term for banging and shaking something until it works

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67kQ TIL when a bee dies near the hive, “undertaker bees” will carry its desiccated body at least 150 ft. away
xR8w TIL that WWII inspired Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance, which states that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant.
4PAX TIL of a woman born with 3 fingers on her right hand. After a tragic accident, she lost her right hand and later developed a phantom limb…with 5 fingers.
xVBv5 TIL that Charging Bull, the famous statue on Wall Street, was installed secretly and illegally outside the New York Stock Exchange in 1989 following the 1987 stock market crash. The sculpture was seized and impounded by NYPD, but re-installed two blocks south of the Exchange after a public outcry.
9wwYQ TIL that 19yo Ed Kranepool played 50 innings of baseball in two leagues in two cities over 1 1/2 days.