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TIL male bees ejaculate with such force that it rips apart their organs, killing them instantly.

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VkmG TIL: In 1981, a woman was kidnapped and repeatedly raped by deprogrammers that her parents hired in attempt to remove her from her relationship. Her charges against her parents and the deprogrammers were dismissed in trial.
KRB4 TIL the use of sunscreen can cause coral bleaching; the main component of sunscreen, titanium dioxide, forms hydrogen peroxide, OH- and superoxides (O2-) in water, all of which contribute to coral bleaching. 10% of bleached coral is estimated to have been caused by sunscreen alone.
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j6Bbn TIL d'Armond Speers tried to teach his son the Klingon language, used by the Klingons in the Star Trek series, as a first language. The boy answered mostly in English which his mother spoke to him and at the age of 5 stopped answering his father when he spoke Klingon.
NrVQ TIL the Nepal government now charges $25,000 USD to climb to the upper base camp of Mount Everest.