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TIL that bees and many other pollinating creatures can detect nectar in flowers by seeing UV colors that aren't visible to the human eye. Many flowers have UV patterns, or "landing zones", which bees use to direct them to the nectar in the flower.

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9oO6 TIL that in 1890, few years before establishing the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel wrote “On the day when two armies will be able to annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror and disband their forces”
6Eda7 TIL Magdalena Solis, a Mexican prostitute was paid to imitate an Incan goddess as part of a scam. She began to believe she was a goddess so she took over the cult and began sacrificing her followers.
8ajoZ TIL that there are ancient languages that are considered untranslatable or ‘extinct’ because we have no descendant languages to use as a frame of reference for translation. One example is the Etruscan language of Italy that belonged to people who lived in Italy before the Romans.
pYGwG TIL Qatar has the world's highest gender ratio with 300 males per 100 females.
9wKAm TIL that the London Hammer, discovered in 1936 in Texas, is a controversial out-of-place artifact that appears to be a 19th-century tool encased in rock purportedly dating to the Cretaceous period. This challenges established geological timelines