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TIL beekeepers wear white beekeeping suits because white is the least attractive to an angry Honey Bee. Honey Bees become angry when they feel threatened and animals that are a threat to the hive are not white.

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OokRL TIL during China’s Ming Dynasty, powdered smallpox scabs were blown up the noses of the healthy. The patients would then develop a mild case of the disease, & from then on were immune to it. Although the technique had a 0.5–2.0% mortality rate, it was better than the diseases 20–30% mortality rate.
9YYV7 TIL - Robert Mercer's hedge fund's flagship fund returned more than 35% annualized over a 20-year period and from 1994 through mid-2014 it averaged a 71.8% annual return.
wBoE TIL that Ethiopia has 13 months to a year, and is still living in 2005
Kv74 TIL The Germans answer their phone by stating their surname. No “hello”. No “bueno”. No “moshi moshi”. Just [insert last name].
4XxVJ TIL that the longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.