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TIL that bees dance to pin-point a location.

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p70Q TIL Cuddling with your partner significantly improves the healing process of bruises and wounds due to the release of Oxytocin.
bAaj TIL that due to stress, boredom, loneliness and other reasons many exotic birds kept in captivity will pluck their own feathers out or self-mutilate
P19lG TIL of the Arisan Maru, a Japanese "hell ship" that was torpedoed while carrying Allied prisoners of war. None of the 1,781 passengers were killed by the explosion, but other Japanese ships refused to rescue them, resulting in only 9 survivors.
OoLB6 TIL in a study, 2 groups did the same workout and ate the same diet for 10 weeks, but 1 group had a protein shake before workouts, & the other after. Both groups lost the same fat mass, & both groups got stronger, with no significant difference between the pre and post protein shake groups.
ZpmXR TIL that because the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures requires that because upper-case letters are only used for units named for people, Ken Woolner was inspired to create a scientist, Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre, which would allow people to use L for litre and avoid mixing up l and 1