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TIL: South Africa’s Clandestine “Project Coast” - Assassination Poisons, Weaponized Ecstasy, and Shadowy Covert Weapons

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nveB TIL bees have hair on their eyes. They are used to determine wind direction and flight speed.
GY5VG TIL in 2009, three New Zealand blue ducks - two males and a female - were kept in a breeding program in England. However, the program was derailed (despite the efforts of the breeders and even the female duck) when the two male ducks hooked up with each other instead of with the female.
awW80 TIL Facebook had graphic sexual murals in their first SV office. The artist David Choe was paid in stocks
691pZ TIL Ball's Pyramid is the tallest volcanic stack in the world, home to last known wild population of the Lord Howe Island stick insect
GA9nQ TIL of Beer's law, which describes how light attenuates when traveling through a liquid. Named after a German physicist, the property was actually originally observed by a Frenchman looking at wine.