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TIL the NATO call sign of the Mig-15 was Fagot

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yQKPl TIL When Male honey bees mate, their penises explode and they die. During the queen's nuptial flight, she'll mate with about a dozen partners and leave a trail of their dead, penisless corpses in her wake.
wkDW TIL that until 2007, it was completely legal for women in New Zealand to rape or sexually abuse children, being that no laws existed which legislated against such crimes.
X0PoQ TIL taking fish supplements daily for the past 15 years might not have been a good idea after all
GYba5 TIL that there is a algae called Sailor's Eyeball and it is one of the largest unicellular organisms in the world, with a diameter up to 5.1 cm. Although their actual color is green, they appear to be silver or blackish in water, depending on chloroplast quantity.
NDRJ TIL In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat.