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TIL carpenter bees come in an adorable blue species.

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EpZW TIL in The Beatles’ song “In My Life,” George Martin couldn’t play the piano as fast as the part he’d written. So, he played it an octave lower at half speed and just ran the tape back at twice the recording speed.
5VQ0B TIL the Soviets were at one stage worried about the Space Shuttle being used to dive bomb Nuclear bombs onto Moscow
ne5GP TIL of Dingo Pictures, a German animation studio infamous for creating traditionally-animated cartoons plagiarizing the works of Disney, Pixar, Don Bluth, and DreamWorks throughout the 90s and early 2000s
ep46D TIL that neurotransmitters were discovered in 1921 by Otto Loewi after an idea for the experiment which proved their existence occurred to him in a dream.
6Ee4X TIL that at a time when Saudi women were not allowed to drive, Queen Elizabeth II (an avid driver) took King Abdullah for a ride in the royal Land Rover at her Balmoral estate, driving so fast that he implored his translator to tell her to slow down and concentrate on the road.