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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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Zpvmp TIL Australia has no national Bill of Rights making it the only democracy in the world with this limitation in their legal system.
nk67 TIL Odds of being attacked by a candiru (penis invading fish) are “about the same as being struck by lightning while simultaneously being eaten by a shark.”
pYw8Z TIL humans have recently evolved new traits like the ability to free-dive, live in high altitudes, resist disease, lactase persistence, and others.
j69MQ TIL that Horace Walpole, who wrote what is considered to be the first gothic/horror novel (The Castle of Otranto), was the son of the UK’s first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole.
5LOB TIL Little Caesar’s makes only a .90 cents profit on a 5.00 hot and ready pizza. $3.50 goes to the ingredients and 60 cents for overhead