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Today I learned that beekeeping suits are white because bees have seemingly evolved an aggressive defensive response towards dark figures approaching their nest which white suits helps to counteract

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e0E0J TIL the food known as Hush Puppies were named so because during civil war era, escaping slaves would feed these to the tracking dogs tasked to hunt them down. Slaves would feed the dogs while urging them to 'hush puppy'
p8XeA TIL that A Christmas Story is narrated by Jean Shepherd who wrote the short story that the film is based on. His career was primarily in radio, but he was encouraged to become a writer and adapt the stories he did for radio by his close friend, Shel Silverstein.
d80AE TIL that while the school curriculums of Scandinavian countries require that every child should learn how to swim, drowning is still the third most common cause of death among children in Sweden
e05wE TIL the Microsoft Surface Laptop is built in such a way that it is impossible to open one for repairs without destroying it.
OG6bX TIL Atum/Atem/Atoum/Tem (to complete or to finish) in Egyptian mythology created the sibling deity couple Shu (peace, lions, air and wind) and Tefnut (moisture, moist air, dew, rain) through various means: spitting them out of his mouth, masturbation or "made union with his shadow"