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TIL that honey bees only die after stinging humans and other mammals with thick skin, but are perfectly capable of attacking other insects. Their barbed stinger gets stuck in the thick skin making them disembowel themselves when they try to escape and die.

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8a1l4 TIL about the Hasanlu lovers, these intertwined skeletons date to the destruction of Hasanlu (ca. 800 BCE). The two are close together facing each other. The skeleton on the left appears to be reaching out its right hand to touch the face of the skeleton on the right .
5Ybnn TIL At Frank Sinatra's birth, the doctor thought he was a stillborn. Blue and not breathing, the doctor laid him on the counter while he attended to Sinatra’s mother. It was only when his grandmother picked up the newborn, ran him under cold water and slapped his back that Sinatra started breathing
W5A8 TIL Anderson Cooper is a member of the once great Vanderbilt family, but inherited nothing because his relatives squandered the fortune; He built his career from scratch, starting with a forged press pass to Myanmar
8r6b TIL of a chemical so malodorous that opening a container of it can cause people hundreds of yards away to notice within seconds. A soapmaker reported that diluting it seemed to make the smell worse, calling it “fearful”.
9YLRX Today I learned, you can legally call gay hair dressers “faggots” in France!