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TIL honeybees are not native to North America

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BvKx TIL during WW2, German soldiers disguised themselves as Americans in order to cause confusion among Allied troops. The paranoia was so great that at one point British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery had the tires of his car shot out, was dragged out of the car, and was detained in a barn for hours.
M9Ma TIL The first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones and connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.
Bpvx TIL a B2 Bomber carries not one, but sixteen nuclear bombs, each 75 times bigger than the one dropped on Hiroshima.
b6mGj TIL That the IRS requires you to report income from illegal activities, and pay taxes on it
b4p TIL that a convict serving a 17-year sentence in a Texan prison received over 41% of the vote in West Virginia’s democratic primary