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TIL since Japanese honeybees don't have big enough stingers to pierce giant hornet exoskeletons, they instead attack by swarming them in "hot bee balls" and cooking them to death. The friction of the buzzing bees can reach 117° F / 47° C at the core of the bee ball.

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Ovma TIL in 1120 the the captain of the White Ship was encouraged by on-board revelers to try and overtake another vessel on which King Henry I was a passenger. In the dark the ship hit a submerged rock and capsized, leading to the death of Henry’s only heir, which led to a 20 year civil war.
neOjY TIL there were 53 extras in the 1993 film Philadelphia with AIDS or were HIV positive, and 43 of them had died by the end of 1994. During his Golden Globe acceptance speech for Best Actor, Tom Hanks paid tribute to the courage and humanity of one extra named Mark Sorensen.
Y7DOv TIL most of the tools to crack games on game consoles such as the N64, Switch, Playstation, Xbox, etc., are in large part thanks to the efforts of a French engineer named Max Louarn. He spent 5 years from prison from 1994 to 1999 and is currently wanted for various crimes in the U.S.
7oR7 TIL In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown’s sister Sally
4VG5 TIL Most terrorists use the same wrist watch.