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TIL that 75% of all bees are solitary and don’t form hives, and in North America, only the introduced European honey bee and bumble bees form hives.

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YVdv TIL The Mona Lisa wasn’t famous until it was stolen from the Louvre in 1911.
6Ebk8 TIL after the Civil War the demand for labor grew, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries many children were drawn into the labor force. The number of children under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed from 1.5 million in 1890 to 2 million in 1910.
a8Yxo TIL Malabar giant squirrels can measure up to three feet or almost one metre from head to tail
N7Lk1 TIL the asteroids 2709 Sagan and 4970 Druyan, named after Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan, are in perpetual “wedding ring orbit” around the Sun.
kOvvd TIL that in the Terminal (2004), Zoe Saldana tells Tom Hanks that she is a fan of Star Trek and cosplays as Uhura during conventions. In 2009, she got Uhura's role in J. J. Abrams' Star Strek