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TIL Sharks have existed longer than trees

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e08KE TIL about “Vulture Bees,” 3 species of necrophagous Central American stingless bees which use meat as a protein source.
m1KXp TIL: England had a trade deficit with China over tea, so they grew opium in India and illegally sold it in China, leading to the Opium Wars
kO4P4 TIL That the person who played the original alien in the film Alien (1979) was a Nigerian by the name of Bolaji Badejo and he stood at a whopping 7'2"
J1gN8 TIL The F-35 cost the US $397 Billion Dollars vs $26 billion in today's cost for the entire atomic bomb project
rNORM TIL when a university's underwater archeology team ran out of funding for researching Captain Morgan's shipwreck, the rum maker of the same name funded thier research