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TIL that honey bees can change their mind and "un-sting" something if they haven't torn the stinger out yet

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MeBm7 TIL that porcupines haul large bones back to their dens to eat because they need the nutrients for growing their quills
jNoYQ TIL that famous ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev escaped Soviet Russia to freedom only to be diagnosed with AIDS a few years later, he swore to fight the disease defiantly: "AIDS is not going to fuck me, I'm going to fuck AIDS.”
wR07 TIL On this day in history Ozzy Osborne bought 3 rounds of drinks for everyone on a plane returning from spring break and sang “Crazy Train” over the PA system.
V9RQ TIL in 1927, Calvin Coolidge walked outside of his vacation home to waiting reporters, handed them a slip of paper that said, “I do not choose to run for President in nineteen-twenty-eight.”, took no questions, and went back inside.
yYJV TIL:The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and didn’t get killed during the movie