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TIL that the NYPD at one point employed an official beekeeper

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Wkjg4 TIL Planets and stars actually orbit around their common center of mass. This common center of mass is called the barycenter. As a result, the barycenter of Jupiter and the sun isn’t in the center of the sun. It’s actually just outside the sun's surface!
oKko TIL that just one white European has ever run a 100m race in under 10 seconds.
KO0ww TIL In the Bible, Nimrod was a mighty hunter. But Bugs Bunny used it to refer to Elmer Fudd sarcastically, and generations of kids thought it was a synonym for idiot or moron.
jNX4Q TIL that all of Michael Jackson's parents and grandparents lived to be older than 85, with his paternal grandfather even turning 100 shortly before his death
Lk6jv TIL that a “white elephant gift exchange” takes its name from the legend of the King of Siam gifting rare albino elephants to those who displeased him because the upkeep costs would financially ruin them.