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TIL Anderson Cooper was a college intern at the CIA

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woGlo TIL that honeybees can recognize human faces. Conventional wisdom holds that the ability to recognize faces requires a complex mammalian brain. But studies of paper wasps and honeybees have shown that some small-brained insects can manage this feat, too.
j6jyR TIL that when a woodpecker hammers away, their tongue retreats into its skull wrapping itself around the brain protecting it from the shocks
b80 TIL that Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Cage, Richard Dreyfuss, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Corben Bernsen, Michael Klesic, and the lady who does the voice of Marge Simpson ALL went to the same High School.
PYd4w TIL that comic books were linked to juvenile delinquency and subjected to censorship
awnkN TIL The entire human population would take up the space of one sugar cube, if there was no space between atoms.