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TIL In Belgium, Poland, Portugal and France everyone is automatically an organ donor, unless they refuse beforehand.

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0xpy TIL the sole difference between a honey bee worker and a queen bee is in nourishment during the maturation process. Queen bees get feed royal jelly their entire life while worker bees only get royal jelly the first two days of their larval stage.
6EX97 TIL at the special screening of the James Bond movie 'Spectre' at the MI6 building in Vauxhall Cross, the real MI6 staff cheered when the building was blown up in the movie.
lbaV TIL comedian Louis CK’s first language is Spanish as he grew up in Mexico. He jokes that he is an “accidental white person” because he doesn’t look Hispanic
oxmW TIL A reddit user, named Alan Schaaf, created imgur. He created it because the available image hosting services sucked at the time.
8e7L8 TIL in 2005 the US Navy conducted a test called SinkEx on how an enemy might sink one of its Supercarriers could. After four weeks of firing, the carrier remained and had to be sunk by hand-placed explosives