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TIL that bees make queen bees by feeding the baby special food

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lokEa A study published in the Indian Dermatology Online Journal found that smokers are two and half times more likely to develop premature gray hair than people who do not smoke.
PGkO TIL Derek Amato is one of just 30 “acquired savants” worldwide. After been taken to hospital with a serious concussion from a diving accident, he sat down at a piano and discovered he was a musical genius.
xV5L1 TIL Before the addition of the yellow traffic light in 1920, drivers only had a buzzer to warm them when the light would turn from green to red.
EwvP TIL that Libyan dictator Gaddafi gave the Irish Republican Army four tons of Semtex. The IRA sold the plastic explosive to FARC in Colombia with bomb-making technology and training, charging $1 million per class for 28 classes
neylr TIL that the first time the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was broadcast on American television the first 40 minutes was not shown, because the football game that preceded it went into overtime.