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TIL carpenter bees come in an adorable blue species.

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v1dk4 TIL according to the EPA, handling most receipt paper (aka thermal paper) is likely dangerous to your health, due to the high levels of BPA, and using hand sanitizer before handling a receipt exponentially increases the amount of the chemical you absorb into your body.
rNBM0 TIL that in WW1, the British Army would allow groups of friends to volunteer together and let them serve in the same units in return. As a result, casualties to these "Pals batallions" would wreak havoc to entire communities in Britain.
e0RjD TIL that in the months after the 2011 quake in northeastern Japan, taxi drivers reported picking up "ghost passengers" in the coastal town of Ishinomaki where nearly 6,000 people died in the tsunami.
19DW TIL that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was invented in 1939 as an advertising copywriter for the Montgomery Ward department store, who was inspired by his own downtrodden life, as well as The Ugly Duckling story, to create the adventure of a misfit reindeer with a glowing red nose
9k5Q TIL that in an experiment, preschool children were assigned to either the “red” or the “blue” group and developed ingroup biased attitudes even though group assignment was random