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TIL that each worker bee will do a variety of jobs in her lifetime, which lasts about 4-6 weeks during the active season. As they age, their duties become riskier, and require venturing further from the hive.

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gKV9 TIL Finland is a future-obsessed nation. It was the first country in the world to offer a master’s degree in futures studies, has a special parliamentary committee for the future, and its government is required by law to produce an official review of the future every four years.
Z85AG TIL that maggots can jump by curling their bodies, sticking themselves together and then pumping body fluids into one part until they unstick and explode upwards from the force
D1gNg TIL that when told that Captain Picard drank a lot of tea, Patrick Stewart suggested the character should drink lapsang souchong (a variety favored by Winston Churchill). The producers were afraid that audience members wouldn’t know what it was, so they made him change it to Earl Grey.
LBad T.I.L. that a 61yr. old U.S. Navy vet Michael Boatwright was found unconscious in a motel room. When he woke up he only spoke Swedish instead of his native language English. He also insisted that he was a swede named Johan Ek and threw up when he saw his own reflection, in a state of confusion.
MePm0 TIL Women with Neandertal gene give birth to more children! One in three women in Europe inherited the receptor for progesterone from Neandertals – a gene variant associated with increased fertility, fewer bleedings during early pregnancy and fewer miscarriages.