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TIL Due to declining bee populations in Sichuan China from excessive pesticide use, farmers now have to pollinate their crops by hand using chicken feathers.

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jQON TIL legendary English comedian Benny Hill earned a 7 figure salary yet never owned a home, didn’t buy a car, rarely purchased new clothes and always bought cheap foods in supermarkets.
a8pNM TIL that the extremely risky and highly successful first test launch of the Saturn V rocket helped revitalize the US's moon landing ambitions.
dD4r9 TIL about TK, a boy who experienced total brain death at age 4 but was kept alive for another 20 years. His body grew as he aged but he never regained awareness. His autopsy showed nothing recognizable as brain.
rRPOW TIL As gifts for the US Bicentennial in 1976, France showed famous works in US Museums, Britain gifted a golden, jewel-encrusted replica of the Magna Carta, Norway built a Sports Center, Japan built a huge theatre and donated 50 Bonsai Trees. Spain gave two statues. Canada gave them a scrapbook.
v5aB TIL of several unusual units of measurement, including the nanocentury (3.155 seconds), pony (0.75 ounces of liquor), light-foot (amount of time it takes light to travel one foot, or 1.0167 nanoseconds), banana equivalent dose (amount of radiation absorbed from eating a banana), and more.