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TIL that Notre Dame has about 180,000 bees living on its rooftop and they all survived the 2019 fire.

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ZnKo TIL Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart” has been described as “the first novel in English which spoke from the interior of the African character, rather than portraying the African as an exotic, as the white man would see him”
kJrk1 TIL sumo wrestler Emmanuel Yarbrough is the heaviest athlete in the world.
69BpX TIL: In Japan Christmas Eve is usually considered a romantic day for couples and can be considered the "Japanese Valentines Day". On Christmas Day they eat traditional Christmas foods such as Christmas cake (sponge cake with whip cream and strawberries) and Kentucky Fried Chicken ordered in advance
BgwvK TIL about exploding ants (Colobopsis explodens) who sacrifice themselves to save their colony
p8xZG TIL of Eilmer of Malmesbury. An English monk who, in the 11th century, developed a glider and flew ~200m high. However, a gush of wind crashed him and left him crippled for the rest of his life. He wrote later in life that the reason for the crash was not developing a tail component to the glider.