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TIL the classic cartoon image of a beehive looks so different from the real thing because it's based on an ancient manmade hive called a skep.

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LQN1V TIL that French uses « » as quotation marks instead of " "
4XkKR When you think about animal migration, what comes to mind? Probably birds in flight or wildebeests moving across the Serengeti. Yet the largest migration on the planet is harder to see—and it happens every day. Ocean technologist and submersible pilot Dr. Erika Montague explains how.
y6lV TIL that a white guy from Canada is in the Guinness Book of World Records twice for having the best selling reggae single in US history, as well as the highest charting reggae single in history.
PYyGg TIL the Ancient Greeks considered employment (working for hire) to be degrading, "a necessary evil that took time away from leisure, politics, education, and culture, and had little positive value in and of itself."
DQPRP TIL El Salvador has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 1086/100,000 people in jail