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TIL alcohol doesn’t make you able to tell the truth about things more easily, it just makes you care less about what you say

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xr45 TIL Killer bees were created in an attempt to breed tamer and more manageable bees. This was done by crossing a european honey bee and an african bee, but instead the offspring became more aggressive and highly defensive bees that had escaped into the wild
78pNP TIL Neptune has only made one rotation around the sun since its discovery in 1846
QJjr9 TIL that bullshit jobs are jobs - such as manufactured middle-management positions - which even the person doing it can’t really justify its existence, but have to pretend that there’s some reason for it to exist.
vPZwK TIL that some XX chromosome holders can see 100x more colors than "regular" people
X7eD TIL that nearly 40% of people of East Asian decent lack the enzymes to properly metabolize alcohol.