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TIL that bees can recognize human faces using the same "configural processing" technique humans use — assembling parts into a whole. They were taught this in lab experiments despite having brains smaller than a sesame seed.

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Ypdad TIL The constitution of Monaco is the world’s shortest constitution by word count at 3,814 words, while the longest constitution is India’s at 146,385 words.
01N TIL that Freddie Mercury designed the Queen “crest”.
Wkvxo TIL NASA will launch a SpaceX rocket next summer in a test of planetary defense. The rocket will impact a near-earth asteroid in 2022 in an attempt to change its trajectory.
wLGyP TIL 22 yr old Hilda Clayton, an Army combat photographer and visual information specialist with 55th Signal Company, captured her last photo, and the moment of her death, when a mortar shell exploded in the launch tube during a training exercise with Afghan soldiers
vPlM7 TIL in 1863, Union General Joseph Hooker significantly boosted troop morale. He issued soft bread 4 times a week, fresh onions or potatoes twice a week, and dried vegetables once a week. He also improved sanitation, requiring bedding to be aired and soldiers to bathe twice a week.