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TIL The Great Wall of China was reinforced with rice

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XE5Rk TIL that bees dance to each other in the hive to tell each other where to find good pollen. The angle of the dance is the angle relative to the sun, the tempo of dance is the distance, the duration of dance is the quality of the pollen, and the dancer hands out free samples to whoever’s watching!
xVG0b TIL that Baltimore has a higher murder rate than Honduras or El Salvador, and 10% of the population is addicted to heroin
69Vg8 TIL that when Buddy Holly died 6 months after being married, his widow inherited everything but signed 50% over to his family.
wopVY TIL There is a tradition in the US submarine fleet where the cribbage board of Richard O’Kane, one of the most famous US submarine commanders of WWII, is handed down to each oldest fast-attack submarine in the Pacific Fleet.
v1dDK TIL of Krista and Tatiana Hogan, conjoined twins at the head. The twins “share senses of touch and taste, and can even control one another’s limbs.” They can also hear each other’s thoughts without having to speak and see through one another’s eyes.