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TIL 1.5 million bee hives, delivered from all over America, are required to pollinate the Californian almond orchards.

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m1Z7P TIL about the Cottingley Fairies, a hoax made by 2 young girls, that claimed to have photographed fairies in their back yard. They managed to fool Arthur Conan Doyle with this hoax.
5DwB TIL less than two years after getting fired from SNL, Norm Macdonald returned as a host and went on to ridicule the show during the opening monologue.
r7b0 TIL that Apollo Robbins, a pickpocket magician, struck up a conversation with Jimmy Carter and Secret Service agents. Within a few minutes he emptied the agents’ pockets of everything except their guns.
6ExbY TIL: The measles has a rare complication called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that occurs 6-15 years after the virus is caught. This complication causes brain swelling which leads to memory loss, change in personality, loss of body functions, uncontrollable spasming, and inevitably death.
j54R TIL that an investment bank that lost 66 employees on 9/11 has paid the college fees of 54 children of their fallen co-workers.