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TIL that almost 100% of bees in southern California are Africanized

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B6GL TIL that in 526 AD there was a worldwide dust cloud that blocked out the sun for a FULL YEAR, resulting in widespread famine and disease. More than 80% of Scandinavia and parts of China starved to death, 30% of Europe died in epidemics.
N7YbJ TIL In 1997, the British handed Hong Kong back to China, the end of a 99-year-long lease
9Oy7 TIL that obese drivers are 78% more likely to die in a car crash.
wooZY TIL: in the Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight, actor Kurt Russel actually smashed a $40,000 antique guitar, rather than the prop.
0w55j TIL that male cichlids have oval-shaped dots on their anal fins called egg-spots used to trick females who are carrying unfertilised eggs in their mouth to think they’ve dropped some. The female will then place her mouth to the anal fin and receive a load blown into her face.