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TIL there are wasps that make honey, called Mexican Honey Wasps.

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0d8ZN TIL Hershey's Ice Cream is unaffiliated with the Hershey's candy corporation, despite both being founded in the same city during the same year. There has been multiple lawsuits between the two, with Hershey's Ice Cream having to add a disclaimer that it's not related to Hershey's chocolate.
yEZX TIL The Indian Army during World War II began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men.By the end of the war, it had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945
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