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TIL Vulture Bees exist, a type of bee that feeds on carrion

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d8ra8 TIL that hitting a fruit tree can make it feel threatened, spurring it to produce more or larger fruit to distribute seeds before dying.
enJ6 TIL: The land with private homes the Supreme Court allowed a city council to “condemn” and sell to a private developer is now an empty lot because the developer couldn’t raise the money to develop the land.
1aV1d TIL that 3 people in the US are still using iron lungs from childhood polio. Repairs to the equipment is near impossible.
nWjKB TIL that the first Photoshop version is Photoshop 0.63 which was officially created on 2nd October 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll.
vAM8 TIL that the iconic Nokia 3310s battery capacity is 3 - 4 times less than an average smartphone today.