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TIL when a bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it is audible by the human ear

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7XO7 TIL that Doctors once worried about ‘elevator sickness,’ caused by the sudden movement of one’s organs inside the body when an elevator came to a halting stop
Q1Pa TIL that in 2006, 75% of Chinese didn’t know that sharks were slaughtered to make shark fin soup. But now, 91% of Chinese support a nationwide ban to shark killings, thanks to activism work by Yao Ming and others
kOKY7 TIL firefighters that responded to last year's fire at Notre Dame knew which works of art to rescue and in which order following a protocol developed for such a disaster.
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