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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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9wLRm TIL in 2012, a computer history museum in California sent a team to Sparkler Filters, a company in Texas, to try to coax them into selling their IBM 402 with Model 129 key punch that was being used for accounting work and inventory. In 2013, the company was still using the machine.
e0Kp4 TIL of William Harvey Carney. Despite being shot in the face, shoulders, arms, and legs during battle, he never let the flag touch the ground. Saying, "Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!"
Z8Mbo TIL children develop stronger bonds and derive more satisfaction from relationships with their pets than with their siblings, more so if the pets are dogs.
Y7kpB TIL historians are uncertain the precise location of the Rubicon River, which Julius Caesar crossed triggering civil war in Rome
Mep9a TIL about the Digital Wellbeing feature offered by android, wherein you can, among other things, switch on Focus Mode with distracting apps paused, keep track of time spent on apps, have work related apps switched off at home and do many other things to manage your time and mind space.