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TIL Solitary bees are considered "super pollenators" with a 95% pollination rate compared to honeys bees at 5%

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lwG1 TIL that Japan had a monster-collecting card game in the Edo Period (1603-1868)
9wPQX TIL about the Sprint Missile. Which when shot from its launch tube accelerated at 100g and reached Mach 10 in only 5 seconds. The friction from the air was so intense it generated plasma around itself, with the capability of reaching up to 19 miles in a mere 15 seconds.
P1bWL TIL shortly after independence, in the 1950s, Malta elected an Italian nationalist as their prime minister who wanted Malta to be part of Italy, he died two months after being elected without ever being able to make Malta more Italian than it already was.
pnee TIL that there is a small community of ethnic Germans living in Jamaica for over 150 years known as Germacians
AD5Lx TIL of ‘The Vanishing Lake’ in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, which fills and empties frequently but unpredictably due to unknown geological conditions. There are three streams flowing into the lake but none out. It is said that on nights when the lake is full, a ghost haunts the shoreline.