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TIL bees not only sleep, but also take little bee naps on flowers

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Z8B1D TIL Adaptive headlights are not allowed in the US, but will be in the next 2 years.
4ky5o TIL Winston Churchill had very disturbing and disparaging views on race, especially regarding Indians.
4XWXX TIL The capital city of Bhutan, Thimphu, is one of only two capital cities in the world where there are no traffic lights. In 1995, authorities installed traffic lights at busy downtown intersections, but drivers ignored it. They were subsequently taken down and replaced by traffic cops.
VBVZZ TIL that a comet smells like rotten eggs, urine, burning matches and almonds. Traces of hydrogen sulphide, ammonia, sulphur dioxide and hydrogen cyanide were all found in the makeup of the comet 67P/Churyumove-Gerasimenko. Promotional postcards were even commissioned in 2016 carrying the scent of it
0d69M TIL Starbucks is named after the first mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby-Dick