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TIL Bees don't poop in the hive. Over the winter, it builds up because they stay out of the cold. On warm winter days, they will all fly out at the same time on what are called "cleansing flights."

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KYZ0Q TIL, unlike most birds, kiwis have horrible eyesight and are frequently prone to ophthalmological issues. As a result, they naturally rely so heavily on other senses that some have been found to have survived perfectly well albeit completely blind in the wild for years.
9Yoap TIL that in 1928, deep in the Brazilian jungle, Henry Ford built a city nearly the size of Connecticut called Fordlândia. It would last until 1934 when it was abandoned. Its remains are still visible today.
LkYeQ TIL that while Jeff Bezos was a theoretical physics student at Princeton, he was struggling with a difficult math problem. He brings it to one of his friends, who solves it just by looking at it. After that, he realized he was not going to be a good theoretical physicist, and quitted the major.
Eg0kX TIL: in 1974 there was a Four-Year War between two communities of chimpanzees called the Gombe Chimpanzee War
4kNmR TIL that the largest living organism on Earth is not a blue whale or an elephant, but actually a fungus. Covering over 2,200 acres in Oregon, the Armillaria ostoyae fungus, also known as the Humongous Fungus, is estimated to be between 2,400 and 8,650 years old and weighs over 6,000 tons.