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TIL South Korean women are nearly 8 inches (~20cm) taller today than 100 years ago

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dD8lQ TIL Bees come in colors other than yellow! There are green, blue, and gray varieties that also exist, such as the Green Orchid bee, the Blue Calamintha bee, and the Ashy Mining bee.
Wvm8 TIL companies such as Google, Lego and Xerox regularly work to avoid the risk of their trademarked names becoming genericized, because if those terms become fully generalized terms for ‘internet search’, 'interconnecting plastic block’ or 'photocopy’, then they could lose those trademarks.
4kae5 TIL that Brady Feigl and Brady Feigl are two minor league baseball players that are unrelated, but share the same name and physical features. They are both 6’ 4” tall, have red hair, bushy red beards, thick glasses, and 53% Germanic ancestry.
R7mJ7 TIL July 1 is Bobby Bonilla day and the NY Mets are the worst negotiators in MLB and apparently the world. He'll get 1.2 million dollars until 2035
ZpdDB TIL a beehive fence is a fence built to deter elephants based on their natural fear of bees. The fence is set up off the ground at chest height and contains hives spaced every 10 metres. If an elephant disturbs the fence, then hives shake and the bees become agitated, and the elephants are deterred.