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TIL Fish can feel pain, have the constituents for sentience, and Herring in particular, communicate through farts.

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Oo5Z7 TIL of “telling the bees”, a European custom in which bees would be told of important events in their keeper’s lives, such as births or marriages. If the custom was forgotten then it was believed the bees would leave the hive or stop producing honey.