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TIL a staggering number of wild bee species are unaccounted for. Researchers looking at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility found there were about 25% less bee species reported between 2006 and 2015 compared to the 1990s

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6ZX TIL The Venus Flytrap is native to only the Wilmington, North Carolina area.
vPmdj TIL that Ernesto Miranda, the man whose case led to the famous Miranda Rights, was convicted in a second trial for his crimes that excluded the now-illegal evidence. He was paroled after five years, and fatally stabbed four years later. His killer fled to Mexico and has never been found.
enE TIL the sea serpent myth likely stemmed from an actual fish with a long serpent-like body, reaching up to 56 ft in length. Despite its size, it’s rarely seen due to living primarily in deep open ocean.
7vMX TIL ‘Vexations’ an 18hr long piece of music. After a public performance in New York in 1963 only 6 people remained to the end, one stood up and shouted “Encore!”
wLDNP TIL that the Mayan people constructed the temples in a way that a handclap at the base of the temple produces an echo that sounds like the call of the sacred Quetzal bird. For them the bird was a messenger of the gods.