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TIL bees can recognize human faces. Despite their tiny brains, bees can remember and recognize human faces using a similar process to humans, which helps them identify friends and foes.

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R7eNw TIL comic, actor and comedian Carl Reiner was an avid wrestling fan since the 1950s. Late wrestler later turned manager Freddie Blassie appeared as himself on the Dick Van Dyke show which Reiner created a decade after his noted wrestling fandom began.
EW0p TIL that workers at Nashville airport handled a cellist’s case so roughly they managed to break both the case and the cello inside it. The airline called it a ‘baggage handling irregularity’
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R7o94 TIL that in 1915, surrounded and faced with imminent defeat, the entire Serbian army and government, numbering 400,000 (~10% of the population), retreated through Albania to the sea and evacuated to Greece. Half of them died on the march, but the rest came back in 1917 to liberate their country.
5YAgP TIL that the longest successful glide by a passenger jet was Air Transat Flight 236 from Toronto to Lisbon in August, 2001. The aircraft glided 120 kilometers (75 miles) at 33,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean after a fuel leak caused both engines to flame out. All passengers and crew survived.