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TIL high-fructose corn syrup may be tied to worldwide collapse of bee colonies

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BrGPx TIL that underwater explosions can be used to manufacture complicated jet engine parts and missile cones in a process that's called "explosive forming".
XbnD TIL that in 1987 a man convinced 2.8 million people to send him a penny each for his college education
LL6Z TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car and would scare his guests by driving into a lake, screaming about brake failure.
vP8e7 TIL Prolific author, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Crichton wrote a video game called Amazon for the Apple II series computer in 1984
WXWY TIL Floating cities above the clouds of Venus may be our best bet for becoming a two-planet species. Conditions there are so similar to Earth a human wouldn’t need a pressurized-suit, the gravity is similar and transit times are shorter than to Mars.