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TIL about the Bradley Effect, where a people will say they support a candidate to avoid looking prejudiced

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VMw74 TIL bees can be blue. Xylocopa caerulea, the blue carpenter bee, is non-aggressive and semi-solitary. They do not build hives like honeybees but instead prefer to live inside dead wood. They live in Southeast Asia, India and Southern China.
9YBO7 TIL there's a country named CHAD, in Central Africa. What a flex.
x6JdD TIL Only 17-25% of people that fall overboard on a cruise ship are ever rescued
Y7X8x TIL Espionage Act violations carry up to 10 years prison penalty per violation (per document)
neMZ9 TIL - A British company called Aquafuel Research Ltd was commissioned by Formula E to build a pair of mobile generators that run on a fuel that is virtually emission free – glycerine