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TIL the Beechcraft KingAir outsold all of its competitors… combined.

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8eXBX TIL Not all owls are nocturnal. Most owl species are nocturnal, only two owl species are diurnal(active in day) and some are crepuscular(active in twilight)
d8kLr TIL that there are orchids whose flowers look like female bees. When males try to mate with them, they transfer pollen. The Ophrys Apifera species mimics a bee species that went extinct long ago. So, the only memory of the bee is a painting by a dying flower.
J1MAQ TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life.
QNDYL TIL to his pique, but the merriment of his children, Winston Churchill found two of his cousins named on a list of arrested Nazi sympathisers
LEXd TIL that in 1930, tar pitch was placed in a funnel to prove that it was a liquid, and the 9th drop is estimated to drop in late 2013.