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TIL $5.60 of each plane ticket funds the TSA

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9epm TIL Japanese honey bees defend against Japanese giant hornets by forming a tight ball around the offending hornet. Vibrating their wings, the bees create and direct enough heat to the centre of the formation that it becomes lethal to the hornet.
0wRNM TIL There is a family in Kentucky that has Blue blood and Blue skin
D7mP TIL that seat cushions at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA are designed to have the same absorption properties as the average person so that the hall has the same acoustics when empty or full– an advantage for musicians, who usually rehearse in an empty hall
9ggp TIL that President Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” for being a man of small words. An example of this is part of a story that says that a matron, seated next to him at a dinner, said to him, “I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.” He replied, “You lose.”
b9xLa TIL of Hope, an albino turtle that has her heart exposed due to a hole in her chest. The case is so rare that there is no existing name for this medical condition