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TIL that Bumblebees are capable of flying at altitudes higher than Mount Everest!

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0aby TIL the NFL’s New York Jets shipped 350 rolls of toilet paper to London, England, for their clash with the Miami Dolphins. A Jets intern, who had been to London numerous times, had stated ‘the toilet paper was very thin because their plumbing isn’t as good’, so the Jets brought their own.
OoVEa TIL the B-52 Stratofortress is expected to stay in service until the 2050s, and at that point will have been in service for almost a century.
neKGr TIL that the CCP used "Struggle sessions" whereby a victim was forced to endure public humiliation and forced to admit various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until he or she confessed.
APkl TIL an endurance athlete, Dean Karnazes, ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005
GYArG TIL there was a cult that formed around the same time as Christianity which worshipped the emperor Hadrian's young gay lover Antinous, believing the boy was resurrected as Osiris after he'd drowned in the Nile.