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TIL that bees can recognise human faces!!
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TIL in 1956, a magician was performing the “cut a person in half” trick using his wife for a televised performance. Immediately after she was divided, the host ended the show. People were horrified, thinking she had been killed, but time had just run out on the broadcast.
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TIL there’s an Indie company making Battlefront 3 using the CryEngine 3.
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Today I learned that serial killer Amy Archer-Gilligan, who ran a nursing home and murdered some of the residents, and one of her husbands, was the inspiration behind the Cary Grant movie, "Arsenic and Old Lace."
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TIL that Turkmenistan special forces raided Uzbekistan embassy in 2002, violating Vienna Convention
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TIL that Gore-Tex is used in surgeries ranging from vascular grafts to synthetic knee ligaments. Also known as Teflon, this material is arranged in a mesh, which allows human tissues to grow through it. The rate of rejection is extremely small due to the material being inert in the body.