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TIL that bees can recognize individual human faces — something only a few non-human species can do.

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wgNJ TIL the King of Jordan appeared in Star Trek.
eOMk TIL George Lucas, for one dollar each, sold the rights of the original Star Wars trilogy to KUSC-FM, the public radio affiliate at his alma mater, to make a radio dramatization of the series.
vjdD TIL 250,000 to 500,000 Gypsies were murdered during the Holocaust despite initially being classed as Aryans under Nazi racial ideology
JW0Q TIL of an Indian elite chef, about to take a new job in Switzerland was visiting family back home when he witnessed a starving old man eating feces for food. He was so shocked by the incident that he decided right there the he would instead spend the rest of his life feeding the poor and destitute.
1br8 TIL hiding backwards messages in music is banned in California.