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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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W79r4 TIL the first Indian Scientist (Subhash Mukhopadhyay) to create a IVF child (durga) in 1978 (67 days after the 1st baby in UK) comitted suicide after being harasssed and discredited by the state and central government of India and even prevented from sharing his success globally.
PYWvJ TIL that the Mormon Church has a secretive task force that monitors what church members say, publish, or post online. Any member that criticizes the church can be reported to local church leaders, so that the offending member can be corrected, disciplined, or excommunicated.
GAGxG TIL that in 1976, eight equatorial countries signed the Bogota Declaration in an attempt to assert sovereignty over those portions of the geostationary orbit that continuously lie over the signatory nations' territory in contradiction of the Outer Space Treaty.
wLyg1 TIL there is government run service near me which will analyze drug samples anonymously sent to them and publish the results on their webpage
MeWB7 TIL about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed 4 media conglomerates to buy out all successful indie hip-hop labels, eventually making hip-hop less about art & social change & more about crime, gang life, & sex as those sold more records, according to Prof Tricia Rose of Brown Uni.