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TIL bees can fly higher than 29,525 feet above sea level. That’s higher than Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

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b6pn0 TIL of the Mathew Effect: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. "For whoever has will be given an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away."— Matthew 25:29, Luke19:26
LQWlv TIL that alcohol-based hand sanitizers don’t kill norovirus, the highly contagious “winter vomiting disease” that sickens 685 million people per year.
W8yX TIL there’s a service that routes telemarketing calls to a bot that wastes as much time as possible engaging in conversation
x6aDw TIL That Australian University developed World's first Bionic Eye to fully restore the vision of blind people.
WkDbA TIL learned that the treadmill was designed as a torture device for prisoners.