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TIL that bees can recognise human faces!!

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7rddO TIL Phrases like 'Abso-fuckin-lutely' are called expletive infixation
GANM7 TIL that life imprisonment without possibility of parole has been deemed illegal by the European Court of Human Rights.
x6j91 TIL On the night of October 12, 2010, 69 days after the San Jose mine in Chile collapsed, all 33 miners that had been trapped almost half mile underground, were all rescued. Currently, this is still the longest underground survival story in history.
69MjX TIL that there's a sport called Extreme ironing, which consists of ironing in perilous or incongruous conditions. It can be practiced on a mountain, while snowboarding or skiing, on top of large statues... Its appeal lies in mixing the thrill of danger “with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt"
v1Wox TIL that the first human to receive chemotherapy for cancer treatment was baseball legend Babe Ruth.