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TIL We rely on bees for roughly 1/3rd of all crop pollination

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vPZJj TIL that a day in Venus (rotation) is actually longer than a year (orbiting the sun).
lQaB TIL that when author, journalist, and LGBT activist Dan Savage began writing his advice column pertaining to homosexuality, he urged his editors to let him name it “Hey, Faggot!” so he could reclaim the hate word.
w4p7 TIL that the original New England was a semi-legendary colony in Crimea said to have been founded by Englishmen fleeing the Norman invasion of 1066.
Kwdw TIL Anomalocaris, an ancient Cambrian predator, was mistakenly classified as three species in different phyla for over 50 years. As it decomposed, its body broke into three separate parts, whose fossils were classified as a jellyfish, a sponge, and a shrimp.
rNRNe TIL there were several different types of Mammoths. The most known variety, the Wooly Mammoth, was one of the smaller kinds, and were comparable in size to modern elephants, At one time there were Mammoths living from North Africa, across all of Eurasia, and into Central America.