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TIL The few species of insects that can recognize faces share one trait: communal societies with multiple queens. In communal groups with a single queen, the roles are clear. But paper wasps may have 5 or more queens in one nest and facial recognition helps these queens negotiate with one another.

VBKa8 TIL that there is a legend that the rising sun shines through the two-mile long Victorian railway tunnel in England on the designer's birthday, April 9th.
OoMjR TIL of The Shell Grotto, a mysterious underground chamber discovered in a back garden in the South East of England during the Victorian era. Buried a few feet underground, it was excavated and found to contain myriad religious symbols from around the world. It’s origins remain a mystery.
XELZR TIL of a program where shelter cats are cared for by prison inmates. Cats who formerly were in cages can roam freely in a refurbished prison office where inmates are allowed to care for the cats and learn to craft toys, furniture and even knit hats for the cats.
8MBV TIL that Kate Winslet, who played Rose in Titanic, heavily dislikes “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion and admits that it makes her feel “like throwing up.”
a80oL TIL reproduction via Sex started in Scotland A team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland