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TIL Honey Bees are not indigenous to North America and were brought over by white settlers.

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yV0Ew TIL about Chang Dai-chien, one of China’s greatest 20th-century artists. A master who exhibited at the Louvre, kept a pet gibbon, and exchanged paintings with Picasso, he was also a genius forger whose indistinguishable fakes of earlier masters fooled the world’s top museums and earned him millions.
wLR7M TIL that in 1984, British new wave pop group Thompson Twins released a video game on a vinyl record. Players had to copy the game from the vinyl disc to a cassette tape, which could then be played on a ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 computer.
D1vnJ TIL about Navy airmen Frank O'Flaherty and Bruno Gaido. They were captured by the Japanese during the battle of Midway. Only after the end of the war was it discovered that they were interrogated on board the destroyer Mikagumo, then had weights tied to them and were pushed overboard to their deaths
XKGj TIL An Air New Zealand hijacking ended when one of the cabin crew struck the hijacker in the head with a whiskey bottle
Oddg TIL that Thomas Paine, one of America’s Founding Fathers, said all religions were human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind … only 6 people attended his funeral.