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TIL France wants to ensure all new rooftops must be topped with either solar panels or plants

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0d15 TIL the Japanese Honey Bee kills its most fearsome predator (the Japanese Giant Hornet) by creating a 500 bee convection oven and cooking single Hornets to death.
7OGZ TIL that the yakuza has a written exam for it’s prospective members who have to pass it to join the yakuza. Topics range from theft consequences to illegal dumping.
xVdnb TIL that many ancient papyri (and knowledge about Ptolemaic Egypt) were discovered after a workman, frustrated with having discovered yet another crocodile mummy, threw it and broke it, leading to the discovery that some ancient mummies were stuffed with written papyri
MmN0 TIL newborn babies can support their own weight for up to two minutes when hanging from a bar. This was discovered by a man named Dr Robinson in the late 1800’s, when he made 60 babies dangle from a walking-stick.
6EpMl TIL that one of the rarest fish in the world is the Devils Hole Pupfish. They are only found in Devils Hole a water filled cavern in Nevada and are critically endangered with only 136 fish left in the wild.