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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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grLeL TIL: That in 1970, Lula Cora Hood, a single mother of four in Illinois, vanished after a family argument. Decades later, a skeleton found in 1996 was thought to be hers. However, in 2011, 84-year-old Lula was discovered alive in Jacksonville, Florida.
57kD TIL a man convicted of 544 murders, which included 24 fetuses he cut out of pregnant women was tortured for 3 days, broken on the wheel and quartered while still alive.
bba0 TIL that USA has never won Olympic medals in just 3 sports: handball, badminton, and table tennis.
XEnNr TIL about a Hungarian soldier named Paul Kern who stayed awake for 40 years after being shot in the head during World War I. Doctors encountering his condition were always skeptical, but Kern traveled far and wide, allowing anyone who wanted to examine him to do so. He died in 1955.
n0nd TIL that comedian Ron White regularly smoked so much weed on his private jet that the pilots had to wear oxygen masks