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TIL A bee lives less than 40 days, visits at least 1000 flowers and produces less than a teaspoon of honey. For us, it's just a teaspoon of honey - but for a bee it's a lifetime!

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VBKWZ TIL the remains of 1,150 unidentified victims of the 9/11 terror attacks are kept inside the September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in New York City
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GDkJ TIL that back in the day, a lot of professional middle-class blacks always traveled with a chauffeur’s hat. The reason: If they were driving a nice new car through a small southern town, they didn’t want police officers, or any other whites, to know the car belonged to them.
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