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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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1kgW TIL in 2008 a Russian politician’s speech was interrupted by a flying remote control dildo
d4PQ TIL the original TRON movie didn’t win an academy award for best special effects because the academy said they “cheated” by using computers.
DlAJ TIL The US Constitution only lists 3 requirements to run for President; be a natural-born citizen, be a permanent resident in the US for 14 years and be at least 35.
KypB TIL that after winning the Tour de France in 2006 Oscar Pereiro announced his real dream was to play professional soccer. He would quit cycling, join a Spanish team, and score twice in his first season.
kJgoE TIL about Masanobu Tsuji, an Imperial Japanese WWII Army officer who helped plan enough campaigns that he was nicknamed the “God of Strategy”. A known cannibal, he evaded war crime trials, briefly became a politician, worked with the CIA, before finally mysteriously vanishing in Laos in 1961.