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TIL scientists believe that the primary cause of a puzzling decline in bee population is neonicotinoid pesticides. The pesticides–banned in Europe since 2013–decrease the sperm count of male bees by nearly 40 percent, as well as cutting their lifespan

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a8DR9 TIL there are small suction cups on the rim of ice cream cones, which hold the ice cream in place so it doesn't fall out of the cone.
81e8 TIL that the positions of a windmill’s blades when stopped signal specific pieces of information.
neRkP TIL that an acoustic piano has a tension string of almost 20 tons, because it has over 230 strings, and each string is under a tension of almost 90 kg (do the math). Because of this the piano is so heavy: because its iron-cast frame to withstand that tension.
Bxmy TIL Michael Jackson’s father, talent mogul Joe Jackson, attempted to use the press conference marking his son’s death to promote his new hip hop recording project
YyMG TIL the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin rewrote much of the book from memory in old age believing it to be an entirely new work due to her dementia