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TIL it takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey

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G9J1 TIL killer whales know that great white sharks need to move to breath, and will hold them upside down in order to kill them.
xV0KD TIL the first ever strike in written records was amongst the workers by the Valley of The Kings in Egypt, around 1170 B.C
WkKZ4 TIL Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett) was the second actor to be cast as the Tin Woodsman in the Wizard of Oz, but had to drop out of the cast because the aluminum powder in his makeup nearly caused his death.
wRxJ TIL The taxonomist, Linnaeus, had also hypothesized the idea of a Flower Clock; A garden filled with specific plants that open or close their flowers at particular times of the day.
ADvY4 TIL The decryption of the 1917 Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany proposed a military alliance with Mexico against the US, was the most significant intelligence triumph of WW1, & spurred on the US to enter the war