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TIL that your standard 12 oz bear shaped jar of honey is the life work of 864 bees.

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0w0ZR TIL the awesomely huge Saturn-5 rockets on the Apollo program hauled over six million pounds of mass into space - that's 2.75M kilos, or 3,000 tons.
wL8b8 TIL there are some people who can't visualize things in their minds, so when asked to imagine something, they only see the blackness of their eyelids. These people, sufferers of "aphantasia", can't believe and/or understand the majority of us can, in fact, picture things vividly with our mind's eye.
rRJpw TIL of Iris Robinson, an anti-gay Irish politician whose career ended after the exposure of an extramarital affair with the (40 years younger) adult child of a family friend. In response, a Facebook group was set up attempting to get the song "Mrs. Robinson" to No. 1 in the Official UK Singles Chart
OorXe TIL: Over the past 50 years, there has been a decline of 3 billion birds across North America
woxbo TIL that the oldest human to ever live, Jeanne Louise Calment, smoked until she was 119— she only quit because she went blind and was too proud to ask for help lighting up.