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TIL that bees have a stomach specifically for honey. If they get hungry they can turn a valve which allows some of the collected nectar to travel to their stomach.

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WkRPB TIL that former Zimbabwean President Canaan Banana made it illegal to joke about his name in 1982
je0v TIL that Cole Sprouse has an instagram in which he takes pictures of people taking pictures of him. He calls it camera_duels.
j6xaN TIL of a new (2019) genus of frogs called Mini, which contains three species - Mini mum, Mini ature, and Mini scule
x6an0 TIL The S-shaped bars on the sides of hearses are called "landau bars" and are a nod to the elongated hinges used to fold the convertible roofs of 18th-century carriages
rMd1 TIL Canada’s 1886 Indian Act defined “person” as “an individual other than an Indian”