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TIL, caffeinated bees are busier but not more productive.

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LkYbP TIL that the Soviets were more instrumental to Japan's surrender than the Nuclear fucking Bomb and we probably didn't have to drop it.
b9ZN9 TIL that a US federal law, still in existence, permits any US citizen to take possession of any unclaimed island, anywhere in the world — as long as the island has deposits of bird poop on it.
QJnrk TIL that intense working out is bad for your immune system
OoL91 TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can had his ashes buried in one.
69OWY TIL the ukulele was invented in Madeira, Portugal—not in Hawaii—but the name “ukulele” likely was an old Hawaiian word meaning “jumping flea,” because “ “Hawaiians have a way of playing all over the strings.”