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TIL Bees and flowers are both electrically charged which allows a bee to detect which flower still has nectar

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nWad9 TIL after the beheading of Charles I in 1649 England became a republic. His son, Charles II, was crowned king by the Scots but he was exiled to France for his safety. He was invited to London in 1660 and restored his father's throne.
5oM8 TIL ‘Austria’ is derived from the Latin word for 'Eastern’, whereas 'Australia’ is derived from the Latin word for 'Southern’.
NN1Q TIL Irish Monks and Scholars were instrumental in contributing to the spread of Christianity in Britain and continental Europe. Irish missions had such a profound influence in Germany and the Frankish Empire that Ireland became known as the “Isle of Saints and Scholars” to continental Europeans
VBKD4 TIL the US Secret Service was founded on April 14 1865 and signed in to law by Abraham Lincoln only hours before he was assassinated.
MRJ0 TIL there is a term for “cousin killing,” just not a single one because Latin has distinct words for paternal and maternal cousins. They would be “patruelicide” and “sobrinicide” respectively.