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TIL: About a Western European tradition called ‘Telling the bees’ in which bees are told of important events, including deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the keeper's household.

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j6wlM TIL Rajinikanth was not South-Indian; he was Marathi.
aw1gL TIL during the 900 day siege of Leningrad by the Nazi's during WW2 (which caused unimaginable suffering and even cannibalism) the Russians built a railway into the city over a temporarily frozen lake. They transported food, medicine, fuel etc and evacuated children and the sick. The "Road of Life"
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