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TIL: The word "bee" in Spelling Bee came from the context of communal labor (sewing bee, quilting bee, etc) like bees in a hive. It then developed to mean a social gathering for any specific purpose.

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9oVB TIL that Kathryn Beaumont was 13-15 years old when she voiced Alice and Wendy in the original 1950s animated Disney films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). She returned 50 years later to voice the same characters in 2002 for KingdomHearts at the age of 64.
5YlYr TIL: The gravestones of John Parr (The first British soldier to die in WW1) and George Edwin Ellison (The last British soldier to die in WW1) both face each other in the same graveyard
GAnW4 TIL Finger-fumbler in sign language is the equivalent of a tongue-twister.
VM0Rk TIL that an escaped slave of George Washington, Oney Judge lived her life as a fugitive in New Hampshire and provided historians the most detailed account of slavery at Mount Vernon
b9eGj TIL that a group of bears is called a "sleuth of bears". Also: a sounder of boars, clowder of cats, mob of cattle, coalition of cheetahs, bask of crocodiles, pod of dolphins, bed of eels, cast of falcons, business of flies, band of gorillas, boil of hawks, kindle of kittens, barrel of monkeys