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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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W7JQY TIL the CG director of Silent Hill, Takayoshi Sako, created all the game's cutscenes by himself. He used the office's 150 computers to render the scenes after all the other employees left for the night. He also slept under his desk and lived at the office for the 3 years it took him to finish.
loYeG TIL an ad had children looking at the ad see a photo of an abused boy, a help hotline and the message “if somebody hurts you, phone us and we’ll help you” while adults can only see an unbruised photo of the boy with the text “Sometimes child abuse is only visible to the child suffering it.”
OXGg TIL that the Sinclair Method is 80% effective in 90 clinical trials at treating alcohol addiction, much more effective in the long term to the 12 Step Method from AA.
nrrW TIL Texas keeps a database of the lasts words of everyone executed on death row
B8Vx TIL George Orwell’s 1984 which condemns totalitarianism in a police state, is readily available in China, having been translated 13 times from 1985 to 2012