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TIL Honeybees can learn basic math such as subtraction and addition

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EgRQp TIL judicial flogging in the United States was last carried out in 1952(!), when a Delaware wife-beater got 20 lashes
nWLJW TIL that AI can now generate any illustrated children's book in <1-2min
L1bQ TIL that St. Augustine of Hippo, a Father of the Church, wrote a prayer as a teenager. It went, “Lord, grant me chastity and continence, but not yet”.
YKoW TIL During WWII, a single Australian division was purposely left behind, and ended up holding off the German army for 241 days. They protected the key port city of Tobruk, forcing the German supply lines to stretch over 900 miles to the next available port.
69N5l TIL that the first time the U.S. flag was raised in victory on foreign soil was during the First Barbary War, when a group of Marines and mercenaries captured the Tripolitan city of Derna. The action is memorialized in a line of the Marines' Hymn: "the shores of Tripoli".