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TIL according to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground.

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OoZJR TIL the inventor of the Nerf football is the all-time leading scorer for the Minnesota Vikings
5Y8OB TIL: The image that is created from the retina is flipped upside and inverted. Our brains correct this allowing you to read this.
5VVyr TIL of Wenceslao Moguel, a Mexican soldier fighting for Pancho Villa who was captured and sentenced to death without a trial in 1915. He was shot 9 times in the body and once in the head but managed to survive and live (disfigured) until 1976.
d8m6d TIL of a top secret US Cold War project "Iceworm" to build nuclear missile sites under the Greenland ice sheet. Abandoned due to ice instability it was assumed the chemical and radioactive waste would remain under the ice forever. It's now predicted this waste will re-enter the environment in 2100.
YpYDv TIL the Little House on the Prairie TV series and movies were concluded by blowing up the town; in order to reclaim the set's land in real life.