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TIL Dung Beetles navigate via the Milky Way, the first known species to do so in the animal kingdom

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nwEr TIL Bruce Lee had to flee Hong Kong for the US after he got into a street fight with the son of an organized crime leader.
56r TIL during WWII, 12000 conscientious objectors served the government without pay. Their many jobs included smokejumping into forest fires, being human test subjects, and working at mental hospitals, where their pacifist approach revolutionized the way mental patients were treated.
E1WJP TIL if the sun were the size of a basketball the nearest star would be over 4000 miles away
DQ4PD TIL Women used to dominate the beer industry but were forced out during the reformation as men spread rumors about them using witchcraft. Many brewed in secret in the woods after laws were passed prohibiting them from brewing. Much of the iconography of witches comes from this period.
X0a1R TIL 2.5 miles beneath the Amazon River is another body of water called the Hamza River. The Hamza is much wider than the Amazon; it's salty; and it moves at a glacial speed.