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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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1arXd TIL during the opening of 1936 Olympic,Adolph Hitler made a speech which was broadcasted in 41 countries.Due to the high frequency of the signal,it escaped the earth ionosphere.Carl Sagan wrote his book Contact,on alien-human encounter based on this platform that alien heard Hitlers voice first.
9Y9jX TIL of Georg Gaertner, a German prisoner of war who escaped from a POW camp in the U.S. in 1945. He started an entirely new life under a new identity, and did not reveal his past, even to his wife, for 40 years
pYxMZ TIL Chen Mengjia, who opposed the Communist government's proposal to simplify Chinese characters. During the Anti-Rightist Movement, he was labeled a Rightist and sent to a labor camp. In 1966, at the start of the Cultural Revolution, he faced severe persecution again and committed suicide.
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