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TIL Honeybees, despite having the brain size of a sesame seed, can count up to four and can understand the concept of zero.

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nE5B TIL When the leading emergency asthma medication Albuterol’s patent expired, the patent holding pharmaceutical companies lobbied to have their own inhalers banned based on environmental issues, allowing them to file a new patent, and continue to monopolize the market.
X0rkP TIL there’s a rare form of cancer called NUT carcinoma that can form anywhere in the body, but is caused by a mutation in a gene that encodes the “NUT” protein that is expressed almost exclusively in testis.
1aOM7 TIL That the CIA not only tried to assassinate Fidel Castro literally but also tried their hand in character assassination including using thallium salts to attempt to destroy his famous beard
pY4k4 TIL that Mao Zedong rewarded factory workers with mangoes. Then he forced people to honor the fruit and started a short-lived, but intense, mango cult.
xl0g TIL Whaling is illegal in Oklahoma, even though there aren’t any