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TIL Mason bees can pollinate anywhere from 20-100k blossoms per day while honeybees pollinate only 50-1000 blossoms per day, making the native North American mason bee a far more efficient pollinator than the European honey bee.

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DQnZp TIL that the sport of curling originated in medieval Scotland and was originally played on frozen ponds and lochs. The first official curling club was formed in Scotland in the 1800s, and the sport has since spread to many countries around the world, including Canada.
4rMR TIL on Nov 22, 1987, two television stations in Chicago, IL, were hijacked within the course of three hours. The hijacker dressed to resemble Max Headroom, a fictional British artificial intelligence character from the mid 80’s. To this day neither the hijacker nor any accomplices have been found.
mxy0M TIL about Sir Henry Head, a victorian English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, by severing and reconnecting sensory nerves and mapping how sensation returned over time.
kJZ4m TIL of the Portrait of Juan de Pareja - the earliest known portrait of a Spanish man of African descent - a 1650 work by Diego Velázquez, it depicts an enslaved man Juan de Pareja, and in the words of the contemporaries it "alone was truth"
4beo TIL: Young adult women who read “Fifty Shades of Grey” are more likely than nonreaders to exhibit signs of eating disorders and have a verbally abusive partner.